Mummification

Mummification

Drain my Body of Blood
For Life, I have none!
(blood is life... blood is life... blood is life...)

Remove my Innards!
Force them into Empty Vessels with Heads of Animals...
As if my being worth less than
Common Beasts...
Yet they Smile!
Those Bottles smile after they Consume me...
Yet even those Canopic Jars don't want my
Wretched Heart...
Let it Wither Painfully within me...

My brain?
Oh!
Discard It!
Drain it through my nose with
Vulgarity!
Destroy my Encephalon!
My Thoughts mean nothing!

Drown my Cadaver in Salt
In an attempt to Dehydrate me of
Pain!
Yet you merely sting every Open Wound!

Then, Wrap and Engulf me
With strips of White Linens of my
Agony!
My Skin shall never Escape them now!

Finally, encase me in a Sarcophagus of Shame
With a Painted
Smile...
Like that of a Clown...
The Joker...
The Fool...
Or maybe The Cheshire Cat...
I don't really care...

Okay then...
I'm all done...
Embalmed and Preserved
So that the Whole World can Laugh
At my Humiliation...

I'm merely
An Empty,
Lifeless,
And Cold
Mummy...