Mealtime

We are lonely 

On a web—

Waiting for a feast

To commence

But we're not invited as

Esteemed guests—

Distress

Chokes every pore and 

Spins protest—

Battered down, we are

The pests—the cuisine

In a spider's eye, but we

Deny—refuse to try,

Then a bell signals

Mealtime

And we comply.