Daily Cascade

Elegy to Life

Prompt:
Have fun with these 10 words in your entry: tooth, crown, tumor, leak, clear, survival, reflection, blank and Kermes

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Elegy to Life

shadow and fire carved *survival
now that the *tooth of time
is wearing a false *crown

like distant dreams in *Kermes red
as within their mask, a *tumor coils
while I measure *leak and loss

then, in *reflection, I judge my fate
for the hourglass glares *clear,
and a *blank chronicle writes itself