Reciprocal Altruism

"Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork!"

                                                                  --- Terry Pratchett

For you, my cannibal love,

I've blinded the jaundiced eye.

I see a hot bath

in the boiling pot;

protection in the knife.

For me, my cannibal love,

you fatten and feed for nights

of hunger
as I ripen

in your hands.

For Magaly's prompt at Real Toads