Perspective Poetry Prompt: APPLE: Describe an apple as seen by a young woman who has just lost her husband to cancer. DO NOT mention the husband or the word cancer.

Decay

A lone apple
sitting on the ground
under the tree where it once grew
slowly decaying, as it is eaten away from the inside.

A once bright red apple
is now in horrible condition.
Everyone wishes that it was still bright red,
and everyone could enjoy it.

Only a few traces,
of what it used to be.
Now brown and rotten
the apple is soon gone.