Jungle

stumbling through the jungle,
sweating in constriction
the lush greenness beckons,
enticing one to loss
with malaria shots of sense
keeping the disease away

the madness,
the desire for warmth
   monkeys chatter their confidences,
birds deliver their distant mating calls
pirahanas wait to feed on the naïve,
while the sloth is barely moving.

languishing in the jungle
without a maps assistance
without compass guidance

going nowhere in the jungle
pondering existence in the jungle
so confounding, defeating,
emotional malaria restricting.

Trapped in the Jungle
in
The Jungle
but not of
The Jungle