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The All-Consuming Void

October 3, 2022
By Anonymous

Hunger, I feel that it is on its way, 
the ache returns to haunt me every day. 
I once thought that I had satiated it- 
but its grip on me means I must submit. 
This craving inside me will never stop. 
It growls at me to consume some more slop. 
It is a great maw, a bottomless pit: 
a black hole, from which light cannot emit. 
It's gnawing, pulling at my insides. 
The yearning for food never subsides. 
I will never be free from this foul curse, 
 not until that final ride in the hearse  
For hunger has its horrid hooks in me: 
and eternally hungry I shall be. 

© Anonymous

The author's comments:

I wrote this piece about one of the strongest urges we can feel as humans: hunger. I wrote this sonnet before dinner, and was inspired by my own voracious appetite.

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