I know you have a
taste for flesh:
I have seen it over
many years in your
blood-stained hands
and flesh-filled teeth.

I have seen you
devour those most close,
and chew away with delight
till only the gnawed bones are left.

But you too are made of flesh
on skeleton, and you too can be
consumed, till all that is left
of your hate- filled self
is your deathly crumbling bones.

10/1/2024