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Born to be eaten by our own

Devoured slowly on the same slab

On which we consume

The flesh of our mothers

Piece by piece, muscle down to bone

Eat a sliver of the magic

Inherent in all once living souls

Take the last thing that they have

Face slick with blood, engorged with flesh

Inherit the pain of our wounded mothers

Learn to fear what you will birth

Love what will consume you

To keep wind underneath wings

Laced with the viscera of our sisters

To taste the flesh of stars between our teeth

Mouths wet with the tendons torn from heaven

Eaten

Our one desire, our only wish is to be

Eaten

Devoured by daughters we never learned to love, we are

Eaten

Our one desire, our only wish is to be

Eaten

Our greatest fears, forever unfaced

Fated to die for the Star Eater

Lusted for the sweetness of their flesh

Power bursts onto their tongue

Drinking down the arterial wine

Eaten

Our one desire, our only wish is to be

Eaten

Devoured by daughters we never learned to love, we are

Eaten

Our one desire, our only wish is to be

Eaten

Our greatest fears, forever unfaced

Face slick with blood—engorged with flesh

Inherit the pain of our wounded mothers

Learn to fear what you will birth

Love what will consume you