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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Dark · #2008840
The end will arrive, as it must, with a whisper of final breath. (Form: Cascade)
Mortality


Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
I stare into the eyes of death.
The end will arrive, as it must,
with a whisper of final breath.

Contemplating mortality
comes with a sense of distrust.
ā€œThe Endā€ implies finality:
ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

To vanish; to leave neā€™er a trace,
seems the madness of King Macbeth.
As I welcome his cold embrace,
I stare into the eyes of death.

Itā€™s part of the contract of life,
to which we must learn to adjust.
With the joys, the tears and the strife
the end will arrive, as it must.

Celebrate life; do not grieve
for our hope lies beyond death.
For at the end, we all leave
with a whisper of final breath.



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An entry for Day 9, "Invalid ItemOpen in new Window.
Prompt: Write a poem in the Dark genre inspired by this image
Forbidden words: "dark", "darkness", "shadow", "night".
Form: Cascade ~ The Cascade  Open in new Window. poem is a form invented by Udit Bhatia. For the cascade poem, take each line from the first stanza of a poem and make those the final lines of each stanza afterward.
Line Count: 20
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