CCCLXXX - Absolute Acceptance

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Two thirds of  a Three Word Wednesday. 

I found this photo when searching for an illustration for the previous poem,

submitted for this weeks Three Word Wednesday challenge. 

I was taken by the photo and attempted a second entry. 

The words I had to work with were 'nestle', 'fall' and 'absolute'

but when I had finished the work, a pantoum, there was nowhere

for 'absolute' to go but in the title.

Absolute Acceptance

When the hot ash begins to fall,
Spread like a blanket upon the town,
Into loving arms they crawl
And so embraced, they calmly drown.

Spread like a blanket upon the town
It smothers couples nestled below
And so embraced, they calmly drown,
Accepting what the fates bestow.

It smothers couples nestled below,
Hoping that they will come through,
Accepting what the fates bestow.
There’s little else that they can do.

Hoping that they will come through,
Into loving arms they crawl.
There’s little else that they can do
When the hot ash begins to fall.

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© 2012   J Cosmo Newbery
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