Bones on top of bones
heavy cold stone bones
heaped in a pile
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Draped in muscle
limp languid motionless muscle
ravenous for revival
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Brain engulfed in murky liquid
sludge blood clogging up veins
dead tissue floating
marrow leaching pain
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Limbs dense and swollen
stuffed with tar and grimy sand
paralyzed with exhaustion
unmoved by command
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Organs wheezing, gasping for air
suffocating with gravity
oxygen deprived
system decaying rapidly
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Flesh sheathed in sunken skin
a barren wasteland
forgotten and forsaken
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Bones on top of bones
betrayed neglected withered bones
heaving in a pile

– Jasmine Sanchez-Ziller