**My theme is to write about the effect(s) of death, or life after death, in 150 words or less**
Death of an Angel
They stood before her grave, weeping. The child of a millennium, the golden girl, never thought to die, lay in the ground. Families from all over threw roses and kicked sorrow-stained rocks inward, while I sat down near the box; her picture now a burning memory in my hands, like a hollow promise of eternal love. Her empty breath filled my lungs as her ghastly hands peeled my heart. Petals and dirt surrounded her body, closed up in the gaping hole. Our Earth was prepared to eat another one. We had fed it love for centuries, forced to move on. We cannot move on, however, if the dead refuse to depart...
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