1: there used to be a garden

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This poem is about seasons, and I've made them as tragic as possible. There is a certain beauty in suffering, and that beauty is the words you use to describe it.

There used to be a garden

Spring rolled off a cliff

I breathed in the air, standing stiff

Summer had an axe in her hand

it wasn't as she'd planned

She was going to arrive with flowers in her arms

but spring, with her disappearance, had left behind scars

Summer tried to recover, but how can an addict find release

she took the axe and cut down the trees

with the raging storms that rose before the fall

she swung her toy, destroying it all

And when autumn opened the door

there were leaves and drops of berry juice on the floor

she closed her eyes and stepped over her dear summer

growing silently number and number

In desperation, winter froze it all,

for she couldn't let go of, instead built a wall

a fortress around her dead and dying friend

but they'd meet each other after the end.

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