Feasting On Famine

Feeding on my hunger
  the days were longer still

That yet to come and still undone
  left victim to my will

Starvation my horizon
  its emptiness on fire

Unending pangs my souls repast
  —a famine to inspire

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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