consumption metta

at once you emerge from a mother's womb

know the cosmic feast is a karmic debt

may you be devoured, may you be consumed

.

milk froth, from her nipple liquid prana spumes

latch onto her breast, find hunger infects

at once you emerge from a mother's womb

.

give of yourself: your art, each workday commute,

love freely and realize life's parasitic breadth

may you be devoured, may you be consumed

.

the clock eats quickly your hours—impugn

not the finitude of flesh, assured one final breath

at once you emerge from a mother's womb

.

be sated at last, your body entombed,

atoms disassemble at damp earthen depths

may you be devoured, may you be consumed

.

carbon soil feeds flora feeds fauna; you are exhumed

behold, impossibility of death!

at once you emerge from a mother's womb

may you be devoured, may you be consumed