open ribcage on a desert landscape

I let myself shrivel up under the unforgiving scorching sun.

for a thing like me, posing as a human, all I can do is waste away in this world.

letting myself melt into the ground and be reclaimed by the dirt that formed me. 

not taking from the world, not giving in, not sucking the fruits of life and indulging in my gluttonous desires, not taking space 

or time 

or energy.

feeding on myself like the insatiable leech I have come to be 

forevermore draining myself of all that is left

because what I once was is gone

opening myself up

and letting the sky swallow me