Time to Dine

Watching my father die starving

Hurt more than any hunger

Life at that knife-edge

Cuts out hearts

I have never felt safe

Everything that lives eats

Everyone that loves eats well

The fate of a species depends on how it dines

My safety is the food of many worlds

Where others study

I taste

Where many experiment

I sample

Certain flavors so potent

A savor kills

My last discovery a greater star

A furry, funny biped

Fool enough to make us laugh

Till my ship plucked some morsels

That first bite killed my second heart

My species learned its fate

Fast and ferocious

They lay waste their green world

I will turn their destruction to delicious delectation

Cull them now

Some will be left to breed

Such a joy to hunt in the early morning

Running between blue oceans and skies