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wallowing in decay, we walk through our day

with no thought to the suffering, no thought to the beauty

and certainly no thought to the connection between the two

because sometimes beauty does attract decay, or becomes it

while a rose may be beautiful, it only stays so until the petals wilt

and fall and rot and becomes the inert matter from whence it came

the truth of this world is that beauty is fleeting, as are we