Abalone

Prompt Challenge: Write the letters of the alphabet down the side of your page. Start at the top, each line will start with the letter on that line. Complete each line as it carries on from the one before.

This prompt has been resting in my inbox for a few weeks now.  Tonight, I decided it had been there a few weeks too long, so I sat down and this spilled out of me. It's dark I know, but sometimes darkness reveals the most truest of beauty. Plus, the world currently feels like it's been trapped inside Poe's Pit and the Pendulum, so you can hardly blame me...

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Abalone sea shells

Bare their teeth up to the sky

Crows caw with forced clarity

Daring the mountains beneath them

Eating the clouds of hearts

Far away I’m certain

God exists in a halcyon land, there

Hope is more than a tattered gleam

Islands brim with jewel toned peace

Justice roams with a purposeful hand, but…

Killing is all I see here

Love splayed out, then drawn and quartered

Marooned upon cold sea waves that know

Nothing but cruel barbarity and

Opened doors that have never witnessed laughter

Pain is the ruling monarch

Queen of blood and death and

rage echoing with

Stained words that spill over the seconds of every page

Tripping on the bones of every scattered story

Unheard are screams for mercy, unheeded pleas for peace

Victory is found only by the violent

Wanderers who believe bravery only breeds inside slashing swords, yet

Xtal waterfalls are our true beautiful wonder, but they too fall

Yelling into gravity as each liquid stone sinks from it’s

Zenith into unbeing

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