I Pledge Allegiance to My Life…


I Pledge Allegiance to My Life…

by BRIANNA ROSE BURTON

Her grave prime with roses
she devours her allegiance
as death grimly watches
her disguise

She showers with her ordinance,
tear-stained ambivalence,
as death slowly plucks
away her life.

She lay beneath her roses,
her soul engaged in sun-dance,
as death denies
its claim to her demise

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