Erudite/As a Bug

Scrape the wax off of me to reveal the wood underneath/

Fix me like i'm a broken teacup/my milky blood is spilling out onto the floor below

  Put honey on my wounds to kill the disease

   Honour the ways our ancestors healed. 

     Put the spirit of the insect inside yourself

       Erudite and shiny.

         Carapaced.

I am but a Spectator in my own body.

  A Puppetmaster pulling on its strings for an audience.

    They are ravenous for them to snap.

  I will not let them.