The last Supper<\/p>\n
Friend, associate, colleague?
\nThe words escape me, absent from my vocabulary,
\nPerhaps a paired frosty soul,
\nThrust into this icy existence.
\nWielding a hand of God, or his adversary.<\/p>\n
Removed from the therapeutic environment,
\nHe sits at my table, haunted by voices,
\nDiscourse of a split mind.
\nI serve him fine cutlets, my own recipe.
\nTender, prepared, just as I prepare him.<\/p>\n
\u2018Many go unnoticed, absent from my records.
\nUnderhand, silent deviants, hiding.
\nSome with phobias, others with philias,
\nAttracted to the pain inflicted on others,
\nSuch is life.\u2019<\/p>\n
I carve the pale meat, a steady hand,
\nUsed to the blade.
\n\u2018One demon did solicit advice, secretly.
\nA penchant for youthful screams,
\nA need to watch the eye\u2019s light extinguish.\u2019<\/p>\n
He digs into the flesh placed before him,
\nListening to me, and the dark tones of his mind.
\n\u2018Without prejudice he would prey,
\nA hyena or rat, scuttling in his own filth.
\nHis grim needs growing ever more macabre.<\/p>\n
He sat at this table, much like yourself,
\nBut without my integrity, a gift bestowed on you.
\nMedication took hold, sinking him into slumber,
\nFrom which he awoke, paralysed,
\nSevered spine. Able to feel, blade perfectly placed.<\/p>\n
Slaughtered over time, I relished his consequences,
\nEmpathy inflicted; empathy enforced.
\nHis sins bled from his living corpse,
\nAnd offered to my honoured guest,
\nA fine meal?\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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