Groans

Mangled mantle begs stability
Cracked crust magma weeps
Hellish hoard scortch-scultps vitality
Gushing gasses moulding lava seeps.

Whipped winds violent as jealous lover
Blind bluster of circling rage
Crazed creatures all scurry for cover
Howling harpy storms from its cage.

Patient pacing stalking predator,
Rapacious reaper ever gains,
Mortal morcels angst does stir,
Stiffened and slacking in their pains.

Graceless grave swallows, consumes
Failing flesh and bleaching bones,
Salvific story engulfs dust, and blooms
Reborn-reformed hear the reaper's groans.
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2 years old.