21 | Unbroken

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The flame no longer burns.
The fire no longer kindled.

We are all perpetually burned out from the
endless trying and crying, when we would eventually be dying.
The spark ain't there anymore.

We are the grays between checkered black and whites—
there, but not entirely noticed.

A bulb has stopped working and nothing would urge it to start again.
It once served a purpose but now, it sat on the corner where it once glowed brightly.

Unshattered, unscarred, unbroken, but dead.

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