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The Beyond 
by Ela Lourenco

Banished, exiled, cast out of my home

Left to rot in this nowhere place

Shivering with immense heat, all alone.

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Punished by a society of self-righteous sinners

My pleas of innocence, ignored and refuted

I lost, the truly evil ones, the winners.

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Pushed through the portal into this desolate place

Where the heat melts the sky into the sea

And survival is an elemental race.

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The only creatures here, skeletal crows and decaying trees

The odour of the poisonous putrid swamp bubbles up

I must survive, to one day be free.

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They think I have died; no one survives the Beyond

Either you starve or melt to death, corpse feasted on by crows

Yet they do not know, I have managed to break my bonds…

Fiction © Copyright Ela Lourenco
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com.

More from Ela Lourenco:

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The Royal tournament, the Karnac, is fully underway. But there is deception and betrayal at every turn. Unseen dark forces are at play, both within the school grounds and out with. Even the Gods are unable to help when a new threat looms over them all.The very existence of Azmantium depends on Lara fully becoming the Child of Fire and casting aside the Shadows lurking in every corner of her beloved planet.Can she overcome the challenges that await? Will the Shadows cover the world in darkness? Only Lara and her friends can change the fate of Azmantium.

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