The Empress - "Divine Attribution" (written for a writing course I'm doing)
The Appendix.
The most useless part
Of your body.
Why
Am I here?

Do you think me lonely, here, in this
Dark, small room,
Off the bustling corridor
Of the large intestine?
Unseen, unused, unloved.

I serve no apparent function, yet
When you banish me from your temple
I leave behind a small, glistening scar,
And a feeling
Of loss.

What else, in this holy body of yours,
Is being pushed away?
What other attributes are already lost
To myth and legend?

A tail, certainly.
Horns?
Wings?
Am I, your humble appendix,
The final vestige of your
Divinity?

When you cut me out, destroy my being,
Will you be removing something more important?
Am I
Your soul?

I don’t know. I’m only
An appendix.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Wed 7 Jan 2009, 13:11, Reply)