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No one understood the artists drawing Or why the picture held such importance. No one understood the three cracked pillars As she did. How could they? The tallest of them had been cracked By the vines of anger and hate. The words “WHERE WERE YOU” Carved as loud as he yelled. Its flowers have long since decayed Into pain inflicting ruin. The next was barely standing. The anxious vines wrapping around it Withered with exhaustion. “Im Sorry” it said As the final flower withered And then there’s the middle. It broke. No longer able to Withstand the choking hold of the angry vines Its crumbled visage screams for help As self-decaying cracks spread across it It receives none. And yet… (though in shadow) Its flower still blooms. For it knows it was not their fault. After all “we were children” And you. Weren’t. there
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Mar 30
Mar 30, 2026 at 5:41 PM UTC
Pillars of paper
No one understood the artists drawing Or why the picture held such importance. No one understood the three cracked pillars As she did. How could they? The tallest of them had been cracked By the vines of anger and hate. The words “WHERE WERE YOU” Carved as loud as he yelled. Its flowers have long since decayed Into pain inflicting ruin. The next was barely standing. The anxious vines wrapping around it Withered with exhaustion. “Im Sorry” it said As the final flower withered And then there’s the middle. It broke. No longer able to Withstand the choking hold of the angry vines Its crumbled visage screams for help As self-decaying cracks spread across it It receives none. And yet… (though in shadow) Its flower still blooms. For it knows it was not their fault. After all “we were children” And you. Weren’t. there
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Mar 30
Mar 30, 2026 at 5:41 PM UTC
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