The Cannibal

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Ah,

what beauty I did see!

Smoldering gray eyes,

long brown hair,

flowing in the breeze.

Skin, so soft and perfect,

the feeling like thin gossamer silk

and the color of cream.

I miss her, my beloved Elena.

Grieved and left alone to madness,

she sought the sweet merciful beauty,

death.

It came for her swift like a bee,

a living bee,

flapping its wings against the glass jar

trapped

oxygen being sucked away like a vacuum,

and on its fleeting last breath,

it's black eyes hid

blinding itself from the kiss of death.

And so did she,

hide from me.

The dead life

living in immortality.

I couldn't save her

for we were both doomed

and I'm sorry that's how it had to be

the slave to the cannibal inside me.

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