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Oct 2014
Waiting for the fruit to fill with pithy seeds
Underneath a barren lifeless tree
The carrion hunters spread their wings
And fan away the pollen on the breeze

My feet are crumpled sacks of bone and meat
My mind an ***** rotten like the orchards
Are scattered by my finger blackened pits
Inedible attractions for the birds

Famished as a calf without its mother
Left by the herd long crossed the overture
I cannot get my legs below my body
And find the gangly chains so I can stir

They wait above my dwindling departure
With slavering testaments to their breed
I am abandoned wasting underneath
With corpses of the scattered lives time bleeds

My gullet cries the reckless yawning end
That lungs have not attempted for so long
I let my chin collapse into my chest
Close my eyes remembering bygone
Originally written on October 16, 2014.
Seventh poem for the Hundred Theme Challenge by The-Poetry-Cafe.  A little shorter than I usually write, but maybe that's a good thing for a change.  Hope everyone enjoys it [as much as the rest of my stuff, or maybe more, I don't know.]
Information on challenge: the-poetry-cafe.deviantart.com
Profile: monocephalized.deviantart.com
Theme: Heaven.
Written by
Darren  Canada
(Canada)   
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