Each one of us a symphony for no one.

How deep each individual cut
how violent the fibrous tears
blood running crimson on the altar
filling our ears,
flooding our mouths,
you drowning in me drowning
in you.

Salt, fat, acid, and heat
jawbones snapping and cracking
gnawing on flesh and blubber
the insatiable feasting of the amoral
on the hopeful, the sensitive,
the vulnerable, and the
weak.

Diving down into the abyss,
seven billion eyes
sinking ever further below hell's horizon
trying to find the perfect filter
and humming their country's anthem

hoping to be the first to show the devil
the error of
his
ways.