The Cannibal



Can i feed on you like a vulture?
Slowly destroy you and make myself alive.
Can  kill you in my heart,
And leave the blood by the door?
Will you sit in a room full of candles,
And a coin that makes you talk?
Shall I cut you open with a kiss?
Your blood gives me the rush,
Your pain gives me the high.
Will you love me the same if you knew I was a cannibal?
If you knew I was the one who killed everyone that wronged you?
Will you run away from me,
Or will you stay back and embrace me?
Because in the end you are the goddess I worship
Until I feed on you, and you cease to exist.

About this poem

This is a romantic yet creepy poem where a cannibal claims to be in love with a woman.

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Written on October 20, 2021

Submitted by on October 23, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLLMN
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 566
Words 124
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

Hridya Prasanth

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