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She wears her innocence like a lovely mask
that hides a dark secret kept deep in her heart.
No one ever suspects for deceit’s her task.

Childhood memories pierce her like a dart.
Abused in silence, she vows never again!
She’ll bide her time until her revenge can start.

Flickering candles, occult symbols arcane,
a dark litany that’s called into the night
as an appeal - not for forgiveness but pain.

He struggles to wake up, his dreams filled with fright
as nameless creatures cleave flesh and possess
the shards of a soul that is lost to the night.

Eternally damned, he cries out in distress.
She knows that her dark prayers have been answered, “Yes.”

Notes:
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Image prompt: Masked Innocence
Form prompt: "Terza Rima Sonnet" consists of four tercets (three-lined stanzas) with an interlocking rhyme scheme and a closing couplet (two-lined stanza) which links back to the first stanza (14 total lines). According to ShadowPoetry.com, the Terza Rima Sonnet has eleven syllables per line. The rhyme scheme for the Terza Rima Sonnet is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee. – lines 1 and 3 rhyme with line 2 of the preceding stanza, and the couplet rhymes with line 2 of the fourth tercet.(/size}
Subject prompt: Secrets

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Ken