Licks skin off a carcass bellows a roar.
Impaling claws raking vibrating gore,
Opens the jugular, then blood will pour.
Nerve to fight when the hyena wants more
Hunts stealthily, hypnotic as a cat,
Eats like a werewolf without getting fat.
Authentic in heart this chief of all beasts,
Royally ravenous; loves a blood feast.
Taming is callous; it should be released.
Extinction endangers this sage feline,
Damned to a zoo by selfish humankind.