Self-Cannibal

They say you can't eat your problems. The story of Kathleen the "self-cannibal." Part of my Monster Watch series. (http://zee126.deviantart.com/gallery/59273336/Devious-Folder)

Oh hello, this little creature

Seems so hungry and abandoned

Follow me, right behind my heels

Maybe I can find you something tasty

Oh hello, reflected in your eyes

Was the younger intact me

Next I knew my fingers were stubs

How long until I noticed the twinge?

My hands, my feet

Swallowed them down

My blood, my breath

Swallowed them down

My thoughts, my soul

My, you have grown rather large

Everybody calls me

Stupid, moron, lunatic child

Crybaby, loser, all those words

Make me appear appetizing and helpless

Don't look at me like that

Once you devoured me whole

Life kept dragging me along

Walking around wearing your skin

My belly is rumbling

Oh hello, something in my teeth?

Leftovers of my awful self

Digesting deep inside of me

I drown my flaws in stomach acid

Oh hello, a charming human

He looks rather lonely, does he?

Not for long, another monster

Is about to make a meal of him

His arms, his legs

Swallowed them down

His eyes, his smile

Swallowed them down

His words, his life

Now he looks a lot like me

No, don't you dare

Hurt somebody like that again

Wasn't I already enough for you?

Though I’m stuffed down your throat

I want to save him

Can I also be a hero

Despite the self torment I make?

If I could help someone else

This stomach ache might leave

Cloy with every

Sort of upturned emotion

Your voice sounds a lot like mine

Although I blame my faults on you

I’m the one whom I hate

Laughing into my hands

Bile rises past my heart

Collapsing under your cravings

Until my plate is clean

Bite and chew and swallow until

Not a slice of bad me remains