Placed 1st in Constance LaFrance's Dark or Decayed Words Contest September 10, 2023
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What causes a relationship to fail? Decay sets in when thoughtlessness persists, when selfishness extends beyond the pale, and chances to show love are blindly missed. Vacated houses crumbling with decay once teemed with life and families with dreams. Now in the wind, these spindly structures sway, not willing to give up the ghost, it seems. But Nature’s life-renewing power leans upon decay of plants. Like night and day, these opposites, decay and growth, are means that lead to all Earth’s glory on display. Each year Spring plants and flowers grace the Earth, for God decreed that death results in birth.
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