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Iniquitous Remains
by Elizabeth H. Smith
Bleeding unholy blood onto forgotten ground, my monument to failure lies alone. Ventures of glory withered and gone, I atone in immortal suffering. Beauty once held a soft visage in my eyes. But they are now stone cold, vacant of the brilliance which previously flared within. I have no home. No place of rest. Only the ruins of a glory misremembered.
Shame, my final companion, even tries to flee. I embrace this vestige of life with what paltry strength I have left. But it too will abandon me, same as those deluded souls who knelt before my grace some time ago.
As I crumble, begging to feel the sun on my unmoving remains, I only wish to quicken my decline to oblivion…
Fiction © Copyright Elizabeth H. Smith
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
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