How do i taste?
you sink your teeth into my flesh
but only until you reach bone
you carve your initials with my own blood
and remind me i am not free
you use my back as a platform for better reach
hand me sweet fruit and tell me stories of hardship
you blind me from sight and then explain the world as if i never could see
you rewrite my story and force me to recite
i ask for mercy and you rip out my tongue
and demand i repent
pride towers over your humanity,
leaving you in the shadow of desire
you feed it leaving sacrifices of the weak at it’s altar
innovation as means for brutality
civility becomes a caste of righteousness
only the affluent can afford
difference becomes indifferent
the desire for understanding a distraction
while pools of suffering overflow the streets
waiting for you to drown
until it conquers you
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