“Prey”
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I love it when you look at me like that.
Like what?
Prey.
With eyes that peer
And bypass seeing all-together
Insides out.
Your gaze,
Drawing blinds at 1am
Peels back blackout curtains to reveal a city skyline.
My gears made bare and grinding.
Your stare is a thousand city eyes
Looking into my one lit room.
No cloak, no dress, no tapestry to hide
Tug at stiff inventions
Please fix your eyes on me,
Lock them all in
And
Make they, their, them watch.
Dismantle my will to run.
Pierce me.
I love it when you look at me like prey.
Dear King,
Devour me.
Consume me gristle and skin.
Nip at feathers and fur,
Send prickles through the fat beneath my skin,
Burrow into me and suck the marrow from my core.
Rake over my flesh with hunter’s claws.
Tear through tender tissue and feral fiber.
Unhinge my joints.
Break me open,
Chew me raw and rare.
Clean my bones of their grit.
Roll cartilage between your teeth and tongue.
Gather me bite by bite until I am no more.
Slay me here.
Gorge yourself.
Leave pieces of me on your chin as proof of the hunt.
Farewell world,
There was no mercy at this feast.
Instincts only lean to satiation.
And I lay, marked for prey.