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Legend of an African Fiend
December 11, 2012
Behind their silent faces
Flashes of memory
Drain their innocence
Arising corruption
Etch layers of horror
In their mind
Through a dusty haze
A woman sits
A thin rug hanging from her bony shoulders
A shriveled child
Long past dead,
In the woman’s tight arms
Dark fly-infested skin
Hollowed cheeked
Stiff as a shield
The woman, catatonic
Her milky glazed eyes
Faded, drained of everything
The wind slowly cradling them both
© Marie D., McLean, VA
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