The Field Next To Me

The Field Next To Me

I left my food in the field

and now there is nothing left.

The birds, and the ants,

and the tiny fatless rabbits,

and the worms, and the Worms!

They have joyously devoured of me,

leaving nothing but a moist plate.

Which the earth's empty belly will soon take.

I will not go back to claim what was mine

--because it never was, it was an offering.

I am empty now.