Zombie Cantos: The Burden Of Dead Faces

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Title: The Burden Of Dead Faces
Author: amichevole 
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Universe: Zombie Cantos
Characters/Pairing: Reid, others - gen
Genre: Horror/Drama
Summary: In the fight for survival, Spencer Reid thinks about what was left behind.
Author’s Note: This will be a series of non-chronological one-shots, rather than a multi-chaptered story. Long author’s note at the end.

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The burden of dead faces. Out of sight
And out of love, beyond the reach of hands,
Changed in the changing of the dark and light,
They walk and weep about the barren lands
Where no seed is nor any garner stands,
Where in short breaths the doubtful days respire,
And time's turned glass lets through the sighing sands;
This is the end of every man's desire.

A Ballad of Burdens - Algernon Charles Swinburne