Chewy and Exhausting

This world is overwhelming,

I could never eat it in this lifetime

but it wants to eat me.

I can feel it.

Hopefully not for breakfast;

I’ll sacrifice myself for dinner

or a late-night snack.

Everywhere I look there are teeth.

I must get in first!

Just sink my teeth in somewhere..

anywhere and hold on tight

but it’s so chewy and exhausting.

Much of it tastes bitter,

sour, gritty enough to choke

but there’s rare stuff too,

that’s sweet enough 

to make you want to stay

and eat so much that you’re dizzy

but you mustn’t take your eye

off the teeth or give in

to weariness and stop chewing. 

Then you’ll sink and fall

right into the world’s open mouth.

And it’s never full, the world.

You’re the one who’s had enough,

one day you’ll get sick.

And realise you were only ever

a snack.