Last Goodbyes

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((Gwen O'Connor's story continues from God in Fire))

"The Final Moments of Gwen O'Connor"
By Anonymous

As rain and hope faded into the starry night
So did the will of a once-strong light
Dark clothes, violet hair
Once cheerful and brave without a care

But twilight's kiss brought only fear
And a poor lost girl shed many a tear
For all was lost, and hope was dead
She'd never return home to bed

Never see her father, or even her mom
They did everything with great aplomb
Her beloved parents were faint shades
Lost in the mire of death island's glades

Violet hair, black clothes
Gwen O'Connor had many woes
For her life was cut by tragedy short
Imprisoned deep in a hellish fort

SOTF was the game of "soon"
Everyone dies, as the sun becomes moon
And those who fight to keep their lives
Are just as doomed, by guns or knives

And as one who knew all too well
Gwen O'Connor could easily tell
That her life was good as over
A truth that would make anyone sober

The bodies in the hotel
Made her feel very unwell
And the hopeless fruitless day
"Give up" made her heart say

So she stood on a ledge
The Captain's Cliff's edge
And prepared to leap asunder
And find the end of her wonder

She'd done her best
Traveled east to west
But she had not heard
A word of Maynard

A beloved young man
Who made Gwen think, "I can"
And who deserve to smile
But was doomed all the while

And Gwen had decided
This game's rules would not be abided
She would not fight or kill
Choose her fate of her own free will

So Gwen fell
To the ocean's hell
And leapt from the cliff
With only a sniff

And as Gwen fell
To the ocean's hell
She felt she flew
If only she knew!

She died hope bereft
Gwen thought "there's nothing left"
Succumbing to the island's horror
And what else is left to say anymore?

Gwen O'Connor: Deceased
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