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Roses on Bones
By the sea, there is a cliff
Riddled with caves, intricate
And complex, wild and unexplored
A single beam of light
Illuminates the interior
Bringing light into the dark
It reveals flashed of color
White, and red, but mostly
Black and deep brown
Thick vines, prickly to touch
Form a deadly puzzle
As if protecting a treasure
Thorns sharp enough to slice
Yet wide enough to slip through
Offer a knife-lined pathway
The heart of the caves
Is inexplicable free of vines
And reveals more color
The moonbeam leaches color
From things already white
But cannot eliminate
A single bloodred rose reaches
For the heavens, unmindful
Of its uncouth perch
Its vine wraps tightly around bleached
Bones of someone long gone
Who went in and never returned
In a cave by the sea, a moonbeam
Shows bleached bones with
A bloodred rose blooming
Out of its heart
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