Shroud of seeping mildew
Sepulchral clutch
Silent decomposition
Gradual dissolution
Sunken holes
Once blessed
with gift of sight
Now nourish maggots
Every cherished memory
Every passioned prayer
Every blissful dream
Muted by quickening rot
Blanketed moss
Embracing the sackcloth
Burlap mantle
A soiled garb
All aspirations
All held convictions
All hardened resolves
Smothered in termination
Each familial bond
Each communal chain
Each gregarious tie
Eradicated in aeternum
Returned to dust
Ascend to clay
Concealed below
Become decay
Robe absorbing
Lividity
Rigor mortis
Finality
Deprived of proper burial
Stripped of dignified denouement
Reduced to inglorious cadaver
No touch of velvet or lustrous satin
Bestowed upon mummified dross
Unceremonious expiration
Total past erasure
Total soul vanishment
Total flesh dissipation
Meeting evanescent fate
Ululation
Of the bereaved
Falls on
Dead ears
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