Shared Meal

White noise

Buzzing at internal

And external stimuli

Memories

And triggers

Twitches

And aches

Your voices appear

And I hear what

You’d say

The shame washes

As though to clean

The empty plate

Replacing hope for new

Spoiled

Remnants of shared meals

My attempt to move thru

Is led by consumption

Yet I have not yet

Cleansed

To bring in more

How must I heal

When tainted voices

And slathered vile

Splash my internal mind and skin

How can I break down

What’s not natural

Organic

What the earth has not produced

But the man crafted

Pain that’s thrifted

Time and time again