wasting away

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the receding light of dusk,
casts panes of shadows on the husk,
of a man who attempts to write brusque. 

hunched over a marble desk,
the room ever so picturesque,
gnarled hands becoming grotesque. 

spending each day on a whim,
age does not weary him,
nor do the lights that are grim. 

no longer do his eyes dance and play,
cheeks sunken in, sullen and grey,
the shell of a man is wasting away. 

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