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Beauty in Death

March 4, 2012
By Bbb4313 GOLD, Gwinn, Michigan
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"Creative minds never get bored." Unknown

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With death upon it,
It sat.
Blackened
By the cold,
Covered
By a shroud
Of darkness.

Before it enters the void,
It releases
Its final gift.
Its last resource…
Beauty.
A dark, estranged one-
But still, beauty
Was the aura
That the creature left
Blazing
Around its blackened body.

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