Decaying Daughters

I beg for nourishment

with waxy wings

to your nest I'm constrained

you made it willingly

filled it with thorns

my beak clicks

my starved warble calling you home

you feed me worms

tainted with those who came before

centuries of filth pervading their corpses

you vomit up past hurts and truths

warp my body with their taste

fill my stomach with their lies

I retch from the decay

before I know how to fly

you shove me from the nest

weighted with lies and rot

I tumble from safety

and then you wonder why

when I finally learned how

I flew as far away as I could