We Might As Well

There’s something about the way

that we ignore our mental health

and starve ourselves,

feelings-anorexics too afraid to speak

or emotion-bulimics projectile

vomiting projections on others.

After all, all our emotions do is cry

out painfully to be loved and understood,

like an organic telephone call

from the heart and the brain

that we can never decline.

So maybe if we let our stomach

answer the phone, it would smother

their sound, dissolving it in acid

so that we can further

stuff our emotions down.

With the way we ignore

our inner children,

we might as well just eat our young.