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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Death · #298524
A road-side monument. (60 words)
Monument Builders


It sits alone
In an overgrown field
At the side of the road.
Ignored by the speeding traffic,
It marks a site of death.
Faded to colorlessness,
The artificial-flower cross,
Now many months old, leans against
A vigil light, long dark.
A plastic toy -
The one lost here was a child.
It marks a place of sorrow.
Hearts were marked here,
The broken hearts of the
Monument builders.
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