Eat me

Eat me, a voice hymns in my ear. I snap back I can't eat you. Please, the voice begs. I furrow my eyebrows, impatient. "You don't exist." But you can hear me, the voice says lightly. I stay silent. If you eat me, you can take all my softness. You can take all my whimsy, you can take all my pride, and all of my serenity. I know the person you crave. And I know you're not that person. I know it keeps you up at night knowing you aren't who you wish you were. Eat me. Tear me to shreds. Rip my heart out of my chest. To become who you want to be, you just have to do something this version of you would do without flinching. Be yourself one last time to be someone you can be for the rest of eternity. Eat. Me. ~ B.J