My heart is a ravenous thing

My heart is a ravenous thing

a black hole in my chest

a vacuum forever wanting

with the vigor of a starving child

presented a loaf of bread

and the aplomb of a fat king

on his throne sat to feast

My heart is a ravenous thing

never wholly satiated after the chase

craving the next thrill before

peaking the climax of the last

like a catfish gorging itself to bursting

thinking only of the next meal

but never stopping to taste

My heart is a ravenous thing

an undiscerning sinkhole

opened up massive in the Earth

consuming whole cities in its wake

disimpassioned to the screams

of the unsuspecting swallowed up

whole in the safety of their beds

My heart is a ravenous thing

never subjected to choose

a greedy little goblin

fat sticky fingers forever reaching

pockets already spilling over

shoving more inside its clothes

refusing to make a trade

My heart is a ravenous thing

a great screaming cyclone

tearing across the land

twisted up between earth and sky

incapable of releasing either

from its unrelenting grasp

hurling despair as it devours them both

My heart is a ravenous thing

never worn on my sleeve

you don’t know the way it aches

deep and echoing in my breast

or the sorrowful song it sings

to the metronome of its steady beat

longing and envy and want want want

My heart is a ravenous thing

nothing you deserve

clutching with sharpened talons

to the soft safety of your flesh

hungry for security and

starving for new dangerous lands

it will never let you go

My heart is a ravenous thing

and I fell prey long ago

to its monstrous appetite

step back my love

do not stand too close

if you let your guard down

it will consume us both

#poetry #freeverse #emotional #alittleemoidk #thatsjustwhatimfeeling