An apple and a worm

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On the branches hang glistening red apples
On the trunk a small worm works it's way forward

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On the branches hang glistening red apples
The worm is no longer on the trunk
On the branches a worm looks for an apple

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On the branches hang glistening red apples
The worm has chosen an apple
The worm feasts

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On the branches hang glistening red apples
and a tainted home for a worm

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On the tainted apple a blemish stands
A hole the worm has borrowed and called home

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On the outside the apple is fine
On the inside it is completely rotted

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On the sidewalk that had always been lays an apple
The tainted apple has fallen

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A child skips down the long sidewalk
The apple stares into the child
The child stares back seeing a near perfect apple
The child stops and takes the apple home
The tainted apple is fine on the outside

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The child washes the tainted apple
They pay no mind to the tiny hole
The outside was fine besides the one blemish
The child believes it should be fine

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The apple rolls across the ground
The purple faced child calls for it's mother
The mother runs in a hurry to save the choking child

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The child points at the apple and recalls the events to their mother
the mother takes the apple into her hand
The huge grotesque worm crawls out

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A knife expertly cuts the apple in two
The mother shows the apple to her child
The insides were rotten

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The mother explains to her child what the worm had done
She explained it burrowed and ate from the inside out
Rotting the apple right from the core

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The child asks how one would know a apple is tainted
It's so perfect on the outside
How is it's problems known

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The mother shows the child the hole
The hole where the worm climbed in
The child understands

Time passes

On the branches hang glistening red apples
On the trunk a small worm works it's way forward

Time passes

On the branches hang glistening red apples
The worm is no longer on the trunk
On the branches a worm looks for an apple

Time passes

On the branches hang glistening red apples
The worm has chosen an apple
The worm feasts

Time passes

On the branches hang glistening red apples
and a tainted home for a worm

Time passes

On the tainted apple a blemish stands
A hole the worm has borrowed and called home

Time passes

On the outside the apple is fine
On the inside it is completely rotted

Time passes

On the sidewalk that had always been lays an apple
The tainted apple has fallen

Time passes

A child skips down the long sidewalk
The apple stares into the child
The child stares back and finds the blemish
The child stomps on the apple
The child tells the apple it is better off gone

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Ants sworm the splattered remains of the apple
The tainted remains spread through the colony
The ants feed their queen
The queen is poisoned
She dies

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The apple is forgotten
The remains washed by rain or taken away

Time passes

On the branches hang glistening red apples
On the trunk a small worm works it's way forward

Times passes