An awaiting fate

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Beauty of pure heart and

Pearlescent glow, oaken

Shelter curling into

Palatial waters drifting

Slow.

Verdant leaves arching

Back to kiss the blackest

Soil, ripened peaches

Plucked from vines that

Gently coil.

Reborn into everlasting light,

Where shrouding shade casts

No sin, feathering winds a

Bare touch upon taffeta skin.

Wreathed in cloth of

Willow-wood, gathering

Beneath a clement

Moon amid dew-drop

Bells opal hewn.

A paradise of isolation,

A wanderer alone, the

Darkness of iridescence

In maroon blood against

Stone.

Buried deeply within the

Earth, hidden from Elysian

Fields, hands of flaming

Flesh work with no harvest

To yield.

Crisp rays of molten heat

Grasping souls in chains,

Awaiting years of wearing

Work underneath

Unbending canes.

A living wall of toiling bone,

Parched of throat, beside

Their master seated on

Volcanic throne.

Iron oars of woven spokes

Creak and turn, inhaled

Breaths of inhuman cries

Flail, glow and burn.

Heaping bodies in

Purgatory plead,

Craters of dust and

Sulphur swallowing

Withering wounds

That bleed.

Endlessly looming, tall

Ebony gates, awash in

Greying shingle and

Lands of slate.

Purgatory lost in paradise

Where fellowship of wilting

Embers wane - paradise

Lost in purgatory where

Flowering blooms in vain.

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