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I wandered alone, heart torn from my chest
Crying in silence, imploding with pain
Life, it seemed, was nothing more than a jest
The world mocked me as I stood in the rain

But strangely, as I wept I saw a light
Some glimmering flicker that gave me pause
That eternal thing: Hope, shining bright
Showed me release from despairs bloodied claws

I woke from my daze, unsure how to feel
This catastrophe had taken a toll
I staggered through life, not sure what was real
I may have survived, but now life was droll

I wanted so much to pardon your wrong
I’d never seen it this dark before dawn

You’d finally returned, I’d asked you out
My heart could scarcely imagine such joy
I knew, without a shadow of a doubt,
That with my fragile heart, you’d never toy

So imagine my shock when that night came
My horror on the night that my love died
Treason so harsh, nothing would be the same
Despair filled my eyes, chaos filled my mind

I retched at the very thought of the deed
So wretched, so heinous, so dark, this crime.
A pois’nous, fatal thing that black’nd my creed
Searing pain, stabbing agony was mine

You held the heart of me with such a grip
I didn’t notice when my blood began to drip

It came at first as most unhappy news
I thought it vict’ry in despairs disguise
You were hurt, wounded, I could see the bruise
I wished I could take the pain from your eyes

We spent days together, just you and I
Talking of hopes and dreams and of romance
I said I wanted to give us a try
You said you wanted to give us a chance

I gave you the time I felt you needed
You left for a time to mend your heartbreak
The warning signs I saw went unheeded
I refused to see just what was at stake

Your return was imminent, like our doom
I was merely the dust swept by Life’s broom

Such happiness I shall ne’er again know,
Save only in my wildest fantasies,
As the time I spent watching us friends grow
The times we had, none of them bad, it seems

Ev’ry moment I will cherish forever
Ev’ry laugh I’ll remember for always
Whenever you smiled my heart felt better
When I heard your laughter my soul was gay

I fell for you in body and in mind
It felt as though nothing could e’er be wrong
My judgement clouded, my spirit was kind
The depths of my soul could sing any song

How could I know the misery to come
When all the signs showed me that I had won?

I was out of breath on that winter’s eve
I saw you there amongst the quiet crowd.
Both artists, children of the stage, were we
Unyielding silence was my only sound

Days passed, Nights Waxed, as I discovered you
A beautiful Rose with the sharpest Thorns
This friendship budding, so vibrant and new
I’d been waiting for this since I’d been born

Our friendship, at first seemed nothing but right
Magical, Marvelous, Merry was this
Our talks ne’er faltered, we said no good nights
It seemed all of Life was to be this bliss

Our demise, to me was Unthinkable
Like Titanic, my love, unsinkable