After Beauty
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Fading rose petals

Lay strewn on the ground

Long gone are days of its enthralls

Its earlier beauty none to be found

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Smudges of brown replace

The once glorious crimson

Once daring to mock the God's grace

But now withered akin to a raisin

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The harsh winds and snow

Come blowing from the north

No wheat and grain to plow

No flowers to spring forth

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The petals, alas

Are crushed beneath a flurry

Of bitter snowstorm wrath

Frozen for eternity