Life gone.
Opportunities lost.
Moisture dessicated.
Freshness dehydrated.
What was young and fresh and tender
aged and dried and brittle.
Grace disgraced and Faith defaced.
Creation undone and Glory defrocked.
The irreversible flow of order into chaos
Irrevocably reduced to the skeleton of a dancer
or the skull of a storyteller
The steady stream pouring downhill dragging humanity by its hair into the gurgling drainpipes of [...]
