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the fallen tears

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I'm on my knees weeping above a delicate red rose; my hands are bleeding from it fallen thorns and each tear that I shed a single petal falls away. This rose is all I have left but yet I can't stop it from dying, I have gave it everything and yet it doesn't grow or spread, I have chopped down the trees around it to give it light, I pulled the weeds from beneath it to give it space, and yet here it is slowly dying and there's nothing I can do to stop it slow and painful death, so here I am on my knees dirty and scraped, I yell at the Gods, why can't I keep it alive, as I get up my final tear falls and lands on one of the petals, and that petal wilts away to dust, and I realize it is me that kills it, and not the land, I stumble away crying knowing what I did cannot be undone, my hope crushed and dreams gone I try and live on….
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