Reduction (molecules of hope)

Unspeakable.
The reduction
of body,
mind,
and spirit
into nothing...
but ashes.

Unthinkable.
The degradation
of thoughts,
dreams,
and hopes
into something...
not clean.

Tears streak
red and warm
for those,
for these.
Flesh torn
by those,
and these.

Reborn,
out of the very same
ashes of torture,
to rise above,
forgive,
and love.

we are the
reduction,
degradation,
forgiven,
and saved.

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