Catch and release

You are an orca
I am a seal
snatched from my floe
Tossing me higher and higher
with each flick of your head
at first it feels like a game

Soar and rest
Squeal and breath

But with each descent
teeth
rending fresh wounds
exposing striated muscle
leaking
as I rise again
Again

This isn't fun anymore
I'm bloodied
exhausted
the peaks as painful as the lows
I don't have the energy anymore to say
stop
Wouldn't know how if I did
For every high is new
And the brain plays tricks with pain
endorphins releasing
Adrenaline rushing
Serotonin lulling

Alarms sound
somewhere in the middle distance
Warning
that this will be consummated
In my very consumption
But I am designed
To be prey
You to predate
The natural order of everything
And I am low on the chain

I do it, too
To smaller, weaker things
(And they are just things)
Because they are not you
But they feed me just the same