Body and Blood

The body and blood

are vows to kiss

and to conquer.

What is holy

but to consume

that of the divine?

Yet, its reverse

remains a sin.

Human flesh and blood

are the forbidden fruit.

To dine on these,

because of temptation’s

fleeting whims,

would be to cast  the consumer

from his Paradise

into a hell.

 

Just as the consumer

consumes the fruit,

madness consumes the consumer

from the inside out.

His mind twists

into something less reasonable,

less than bestial.

A monster.

A creature to be

reckoned with.

The consumer has kissed

and allowed himself

to be conquered.

Author's Note

For a while now I have been pondering the sin of cannibalism and its ironic opposite the consumption of the body and blood of the divine. Sound familiar? Provoked by the body and blood of Jesus Christ. Also inspired by thoughts of vampires and zombies and my newest story, which is currently in progress.

Reviews

[Inyourshadow]

A philosophical and a theological question is excepting ' eat this bread for this is my body and drink this wine for this is my blood ' truely the same as the sin of the taking of the flesh, will have to ponder this one Eve.
Let's say that he was without sin and we are not so maybe we need to look deeper.