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Trial & Tribulation

Trial And Tribulation.

 

Blackness all around,

the depths of infinity.

They told me not to look.

A sixteen year old girl

told not to do something.

 

So I looked………

 

The slow twilight

as the sun began

to be devoured.

The ghostly stillness

of the cosmos

descending upon

Mother Earth, until,

it seemed,

the whole world

held...

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