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Tired shadow shrinks and thins

Shading shuffling footprints

Internal combustion : decay, disruption

Eating away at standing remains

Of a man and his gumption

He breathes in flesh flies

Through a bleeding nose

Heaving acids from a bloated gut

Tired knees buckle and

Fall into thier stench

Gusts of dirt fall to blanket an aching back

A lick of cracked lips

With a pale dry tongue

Falls into stillness

Dissolved by illness

Blanketed from which he's made

Retiring defeated when heaven forbade