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AB Nov 2011
A flickering illumination in a damp-aired room.
This lonely, glowing aura is the centerpiece of a dark abyss.
Crevices of this dungeon hide walls adourned with filth.
Suddently, wax drips from the candle reverberating an eerie echo.
This startles the only creature thriving in this everlasting, sinister darkness.

Awakened by the cease in silence and intriguied by the flame,
The moth leaves the safety of darkness and innocently begins to fly.
As he gently flutters towards the flame the moth feels something foreign --warmth.
Instinct tells him to continue flapping towards this otherwordly glow.
As if blind from birth and finally given sight, the moth now feels alive.

The combination of heat and light is addicting, he carniverously lusts for more.
Once innocent, the moth has now been corrupted by sheer ectasy.
Now, ceremoniously circling the flame basking in its heavenly glory.
Drunken with greed, the moth hastily swoops within inches of the flame.
A snakelike hiss consumes the room. --Darkness.

Its ravenous haste extinguished its short-lived salvation.
Now, cold as one-thousand winters, the moth can only dream of his lost savior
It can only wish that it had gone up in flames along with the candle now. . .
that pain would last a millisecond.

This pain is eternal.
AB Nov 2011
Chaotic roots hold true and stoic.
Green, passive life climbs.

...somehow thriving via this *****, desolate lifeline.

And to think,
all its wants is to reach the sun.
AB Nov 2011
Restless leaves snarl in turmoil.
Unitentional violence however,
its merely the omnipotence of wind.

But now,
perfectly still sits an intricate statue.

How soon these throrned branches forget,
how powerless they will become. . .

-AB
AB Nov 2011
Its all a facade

Lipstick on filthy, putrid swine.
A silk tapestry gently lain
on a steaming pile of ****.

You live in a house of cards,
tread lightly, or it'll all collapse.

— The End —