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Ring Around The Rosie
i. ring around the rosies
They left her bundles of flowers in her hospital room,
Beauties that made her sad.
Morphine had broken her twinkle,
and Chemo had taken her hair.
They told her she was beautiful,
but the person in the the too clean mirror told another story.
Hospital smells had broken her courage,
and test results had broken her future.
ii. pockets full of posies
Her friends come to visit her
she can smell their sadness
before they smiled,
and say everything is going to be
okay.
She loved their lies.
iii. ashes ashes
Nothing was "okay" anymore.
Her parents never left her bedside.
They still wondered how death dare steal their love.
They only cried when they thought she was sleeping,
But their cry's were something that
always woke her.
She began to despair,
each tear dug her deeper into the ground.
iv. we all fall down
The monitor flatlined at the same time,
her heart broke.
She was finally free
thought the world.
As every flower sighed
at her
beautiful
broken
body.
Ring around the rosies,
pockets full of posies,
ashes, ashes,
we all fall down.
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