Elegance in Decay
A Lament of Beauty and Ruin
A wilted rose in twilight’s grasp,113Please respect copyright.PENANABubAtpWy4j
its petals laced with silver dust,113Please respect copyright.PENANAJ8uRdqreJY
whispers secrets in the dark—113Please respect copyright.PENANALakUnSZKZ5
a bloom of sorrow, soft as rust.
The statues weep with hollow eyes,113Please respect copyright.PENANALYyLKmfVG2
their marble lips now cracked and worn,113Please respect copyright.PENANAxoRuLa6WdM
yet in their ruin, grace remains—113Please respect copyright.PENANAg1M2roVUPq
a beauty lost, yet never torn.
The chandeliers of broken halls113Please respect copyright.PENANAtBHgoJrmcq
still flicker with a ghostly gleam,113Please respect copyright.PENANAsRdKrgnl4E
their fractured glass refracts the past,113Please respect copyright.PENANAHB4Xio1xbS
a haunting light—a dying dream.
And in the graveyard’s quiet breath,113Please respect copyright.PENANAw7JlElsWec
where ivy drapes the nameless stones,113Please respect copyright.PENANAjj30GWvfvK
the echoes of forgotten songs113Please respect copyright.PENANA7KxUdmS4rK
still linger in the weathered bones.
For even death, so cold, so still,113Please respect copyright.PENANA1iPBfZlrH9
bears artistry within its grasp—113Please respect copyright.PENANAlEKkal6MFT
a painted veil of grief and dusk,113Please respect copyright.PENANAKIJF1iVJ75
where beauty and the macabre clasp.