Films of murky filthy grey
Settle silently upon the vibrant green,
Tenuously, poisonously clinging to life;
Steadily, abrasively, eroding away :
The illusion that was vibrant green.
Insidiously in the breath of life
As sure as deadly curare
The venom spreads
Asphyxiating, choking, withering away:
The illusion that was vibrant green.
Illusion it was?
All but an illusion,
That we strove so hard to kill?
Crushing away every leaf of green
Killing by inches ; a deathless torture
Drawing along the man who lived
The illusion that was vibrant green.
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