My latest Gothique assignment pic

Some of you have seen it already, but I'll go ahead and post my assignment #10 picture (and poem) for Gothique Beauty.  The latest assignments have covered the Stages of Grief, and the topic for this one was Acceptance.  It isn't very good, but thankfully I made it to the finale:

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A midday grieving wail

By eve a blood-raged howl

Pleads give way to pained remorse

And solemn sick denial

I rest here between sorrow and understanding

Eyes eviscerated by the blinding sun

They flutter open with dawn's bright light

Obscured in shadows far too long

Awakened from this hollow grief

A purifying purge of

worn sentiments

Only remnants of woe remain

My guarded heart at peace

at last

A coven with this

tranquil mind

Lost in emerald sage

Echoes of a suffering past

Their anguish hung heavy in grey air

They follow me, enveloped in dark

And bound in unyielding despair

Emerged in daylight and quiet death

Ragged from a long and weary trek

through cold black places

Broken free of grief's heavy chains

cut deep into my skin

Scars and bloody reminders of

another pain

I once longed for belladonna and a

swift death

New life breathed into me

Awash in fate's silvery tide

I trust what comes to be

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The other characters in the shot are all from some of my previous assignment pictures (so yeah, they're all the same person - Depression, Anger, Guilt, & Denial).  I wanted to convey that even though Arabesque has been plagued with heavy, painful grief for a long while, she's finally venturing back out into the 'land of the living' and accepting whatever comes from this point onward.  Those dark shadows of her former grief will always follow, but she's been broken free of it now.  Her mind had already begun to heal, and now her heart can follow suit.

...Silly, huh?   *runs & hides*