Or does the indefatigable despair go on?
Does the sadness shift like sand
Or remain immovable as a rock, and strong?
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Does it never bow its head
Or does it ever abide inside?
Does it never stop, taste death
Or does it never die?
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Does the despair, regret, remain
Inside, locked up, barred in a cage
Whose lock is anger and bars are pain
Then release itself in a cloud of rage?
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Or does it fade into the night
Taking with it memory, bringing amnesia, which is bliss
And leaving only a cloud so bright
That it hides the recollection like a shroud of mist?
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Memory, retreat -- I've done too awful a deed
In this war for me to wish to keep you now
Run away and with you take the pain -- just leave
And I'll stay hidden deep inside the misty shroud
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Sadness immortal, do you ever leave?
Shall you remain inside me, deep within
The mind that would to innocence cleave
Though it's too late -- I've killed and I now must win