Ruin
- John Mumm
In the depths of a crumbling house I stumbled across the floor and stared at the walls white borders to the outside world reaching to touch what lay beyond I would have called out but my voice would remain unheard another crash in the distance I gazed at the ceiling so far above its greyness made my stomach turn and I grew sick from exhaustion and confusion unable to crawl any further I collapsed and turned my eyes upwards in one last vain attempt to beg for the mercy of that collapsing ruin in which I was slowly dying And then the walls melted blood red into razor iron beams And then the floor turned stone cold as I suffered to remain there And then the ceiling so far above began to splinter into a hundred thousand fragments |
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