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The Scavenger and The Carrion

Being picked apart

Slowly circling

Stalking, plotting, picking

It feeds

And I let it

Laying there empty

Half dead, Half alive

Rotting

It means no harm

It doesn’t even know I’m alive

Black eyes and charred soul

If it listens carefully

It will hear the sound of a faint heart beat

If it looks beyond black eyes

It will see colors of dead memories

If it looks within clinched hands

It will see shards of broken dreams

It’s not worth looking at though

The meat only as good as the whole

And there is nothing whole left

So I offer it more

Waiting for it to carry away

The last, rotted, remaining piece

There was always endings

But never beginnings

And as it spreads its wings

Leaving me to decay

I stare at the sky and wonder

Will this be the last ending?

Or will it come back for more?