Canto 1: Flesh-Eater

Said it yourself when you said it to me

The quickest way to your heart is through meat

Hopefully after you read this you'll see

You weren't the one who was supposed to eat


Swallow your pride as I suck on your tongue

Absorb your ego and chew on your doubt

Digest every song I know that you've sung

Rip and tear all that youre better without


Kiss your heart back together, bloody lips

Silver-tongue-needle, stitching every piece

Pull it together, tie knots at the tips

Make room for myself within to find peace


Kiss it so long as I stitch my way up

Remind myself that I kissed you to sleep

Kiss you again but to help you wakeup

Kiss away pain so I won't watch you weep


Canto 2: Sin-Eater

Chew on every time that I've made you cry

Choke on each hurtful thing you said to me

Bite off more than I can chew and we die

Promise I won't but know we'll have to see


I tried to chew sin but just broke my teeth

Melts in your mouth like cold, cuttlefish ink

Harder than an ancient, dead coral reef

Deeper in the ocean than I can sink


Swallowed my sin, but it caught in my throat

Knowing everyone who glances will see

And think I'm not the Poetess who...