Consuming Grief - Defeated Sanity

Mourners gather around the fire

To honor those passed away

Consanguines have the duty

To dissect, prepare, decorate

Affines take the burden to devour the flesh

Of the ones that they held dear within their hearts

Familiar body pieces that may have once caressed

Now to be served for consumption

As they have to submit

The beloved body

For dismemberment

Grief intensifies

A fevered chorus of keening and crying

Ritual method to keep spirit from lingering

Several days of decay

Made the corpse so putrid

Stench so overwhelming

Legs and arms

Dead and neck

Placed on sticks

Reluctantly devoured

Eaters of the dead

Heart and liver wrapped in leaves to be roasted

Genitals and intestines thrown onto the fire

Mournful feast continues

Throughout the night

Until the flesh is entirely

Cannibalized

Pathways erased

Scenery soon altered to avoid memories of the deceased

House burnt to the ground

Belongings destroyed

Names to never be

Spoken again