Rude Awakening!

Rude Awakening!

by Kelp

There’s a frightening number
Of species
That eat their own babies.
And how do these babies
React to their mothers?

Sustainer to rival
In a breath.
Fight or flight? life or death?
Terrified, bled of strength,
Compulsed to survival.

Dreadful revelation!
Monstrous crude!
Surprised, attacked, subdued.
Transformed into a food.
Utterly forsaken.

Stab of astonishment!
The newborn -
Warmed then burned, loved then spurned,
Devoured without concern.
And no acknowledgement.