Cannibal Animal- Thomas Xiong
​Animals eat
and they also drink.
Now there’s no food
but death
to come for them.
They starve
and look for food
but none
is there for them.
They die
and they look ominously
against each other with
their hungry
stomachs, which have not eaten
in days.
They kill each other for their
hunger and
rip each other apart
and fill
their stomachs,
their very hunger.
After they have killed
each other,
when they rise again,
they will repeat their
own sin.
Thomas Xiong explains his poem is from the perspective of "A certain animal, they are starving from hunger will most likely go into cannibalism in order to survive the harsh environment in which they live. It's telling you that animal that is going extinct will rise again and then they are going to repeat the same cycle and it will continue until someone or something stops it." Thomas Xiong is in 12th grade at Storm Lake High School.