Remnants
This body is no longer yours
You have been consumed
Bite by bite
Until mere scraps of you remain.
Once plumped skin stretches dry
No flesh on aching bones
Depleted
Malevolence in your glare.
I don’t recognise your remnants
Your very nature deranged
Violent
Fury expelled in shit and piss.
Your words guttural whispers
Thrown like precise knives
Bloody cuts
These wounds will never heal.
Perhaps truth is all that remains
You have eaten yourself
So angry
At a life underlived.
Copyright 2023, Jacqui Greaves. All rights reserved.
Content may not be copied or used in whole or part without written permission from the author.
This body is no longer yours
You have been consumed
Bite by bite
Until mere scraps of you remain.
Once plumped skin stretches dry
No flesh on aching bones
Depleted
Malevolence in your glare.
I don’t recognise your remnants
Your very nature deranged
Violent
Fury expelled in shit and piss.
Your words guttural whispers
Thrown like precise knives
Bloody cuts
These wounds will never heal.
Perhaps truth is all that remains
You have eaten yourself
So angry
At a life underlived.
Copyright 2023, Jacqui Greaves. All rights reserved.
Content may not be copied or used in whole or part without written permission from the author.