Domesticated creatures

A gender-bender demon Cinderella in a Japanese manga
cleans and hurts and begs his master for more work,
but the constant servitude is a cry to belong: to become indispensable
to become a thing needed and hope that a thing needed
is also a thing wanted.

For a Prince to domesticate a Fox, a creature that belongs only to itself
is to turn it into something that depends on you and hopes
that you need it forever and it is forever a thing wanted


And who will keep the fox? Who will keep the demon?
The Prince and the master
Entangled forever with their creatures:
unaffected by distance or space
You are entangled with me like these tamed things and
my heart
is no longer entirely
my own.