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Prickly Pear

Languid prickly pear.

Ashen, voracious sky lay waste.

bruise Earth.

 

Prickly languid pear.

Hold fast against the wilted branch.

 

Thank the tree for its regard;

the limb that decayed the least.

                              O' how my will hangs

                              as I do above the death

                              who brought us this rot

Pear, languid and prickly.

Tenacious pride claws and bites

at morbid despair and lonesome longing;

                                                                   neither victorious.

 

Ashen sky dust and burn the peel

 

Languid pear.

Pain felt from

the dying of the limb that had more than

you in the end

 

Resentment tucked between the anguish.

Who brought us this rot?

                              O' how this will fades

                              unable to deliver

                              the cut that will end

The branch snaps.

 

Languid.

World devoid;

the will of which persists.

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Written by
EldersNotebook
Published
Oct 23, 2018
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#dark#prose#morbid#gothic#wasteland
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