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The broken ones.

What blaze of fury has brought such decay?

Translucent hearts are all the color this picture

of hate. Can you see the broken ones? Can you

smell the hopelessness they wear like some

expensive perfume? Watch them cower and scamper

through bushes. Hiding their scorched skin like it's

something obscene. Watch as they scatter like marbles

from a child's circle. Building fire from scraps of oh-so

precious wood. Their smoke clouds the almost

non-existent breeze. What would their ancestors say?

Would they blush at the ***** rawness of this world?

Would they gasp at the events that brought us here?

Does it even matter? In the end the grass

is gone. The trees have died and the flowers have

fallen. Tell me what is sacred about this.

 

Where is the god you prayed to?

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Written by
lauren-christina-pearson
American
Published
Feb 27, 2012
Lines·Words
16·134
Notes

This started as a warm up exercise in my creative writing class. We had three words we had to incorporate, and then as we wrote the teacher would add another word we had to use every minute or so. Enjoy :]

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