Fruit flies circling above me By Emily Borona

Updated: Apr 15

my flesh is soft

decorated with marks and

decaying from the inside out

my guilt sits in my stomach

like a pit trapped within

the corpse of a rotting fruit

begging to be freed

and buried beneath the ground

to be reborn into something

perfect and edible for you

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