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Summer-into-Fall Prose. Wrap-up Challenge
In five haikus, tell a story about the cycle of life. Start with being born, then so forth. Because this is absorbing the entirety of all Prose. Challenges until October's start, we're giving the winner $250. Winner is decided by a combination of likes, and our panel. And...Go.
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KRI

Cynically Alive

Unforgiving life;

Wretched breath stolen from me:

Cry into the void.

Lest not grow, we do.

Folks abound don't want us aged:

Yet, we must learn on.

What have we all learned?

From hence the pain of truth soars:

Our wonder years, gone.

Get up. Work. Repeat.

Death easy, yet we need sleep.

Age is a number.

Peace at last, they say.

Wretched unforgiving life?

Breath, stolen from me.