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Mourning

by  Ambitions of Lisa

Posted: Sunday, January 27, 2008
Word Count: 47
Summary: Apologies for the morbid approach.
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Your stone represents your life.
The petals on the flowers
fall like the tears of the bereaved,
onto the earth which entombs
your fragile boxed remains.

The whistling wind blows,
breaking the sad silence
within this garden of bones.
Peaceful, yet lonely you lay,
untouchable, forever more.