Full Moon Ritual by C.R. Foster

When someone hurts you,
Don’t hold it in your body
Or let it leak like acid
Through your veins.
Take something tender


Go to a high place,
The suicide bridge with
The fence that prevents people
Making permanent decisions.
Look down 


When you push the sun over the edge
And hear the great silence as it falls
Though it’s milliseconds, a rotation 
As long as a life, and the burst
Concrete, flesh splitting 


The seed that wriggled in you 
Released, a splatter. After all
Your enemy is dying too,
With any luck—faster than you.