Pyrrhic Victory

 That beast her life gave birth to
a protracted labor decades long
now sucks the life out of her through the nipple of time
The less there is
the more the pull
and the faster it goes
the slower she becomes
until the only satisfaction she'll get
is knowing that when she dies
it dies

18-March-2024
Tressa Lee Breen
Pyrrhic - (pirik) - adjective - (of a victory) won at too great a cost to be worthwhile for the victor.

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