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There's no through road so with iced courage and steeled breath She opens each scarlet line, watching each blank page wave in the wind. She renounces, orphaning it through self sacrifice and, through Her crimson puddles, She sees the barren paths- untrodden- retreat as the oven scolds the cake inside. It leeches, and Her skin, the colour of sour milk, is creaming, each foam washing away the marked gold sand. It's too late, the clock's already struck and chimed for the still unborn - stillborn unborn. Enclosing, the bud swallows the bee, it's shallow heart fading, like the bleaching sun drying the caterpillar. She collapses, clasping, dragging Her burden with Her