Anorexic (Hope and Soul Revised)

Mia's black-hole eyes peer into mine

With Her mysterious darkness and beauty

I run to Her brilliant light to see, for I am blind

I jump into Her spindly arms for comfort, for I am alone

She opens her mouth; a vast hole

Wider and wider

Out pours a thick swarm of black bees

Each bee a tear drop of promise,

Each bee stinging me with their mechanical sound

I open my arms wide and Mia starts reshaping

My cream bones replaced with aluminum and steel

My erratic thoughts becoming mechanical and controlled;

Black bees

With tears I see the Others She's left sowed and shaped:

Squirming on the cold concrete

Porcelain faces burnt and seared by her brilliant light

Glass hands cracked and splintered by her spindly arms

Her black bees bite at their cheeks as well

Despite their glistening and sunken eyes

I call for Mia in the dead chilled night

Mia's a crane over me, the bones of steel poke through Her back

She recruits me to the army if the Others

And I march in line, finally perfection

The mechanical buzz loud in our ears