A Complicated Sadness
These monsters live
Neither under my bed
Nor at arms length
But inside my head
I know not from where they came
The day the sea became the sky
But I will soak their teeth with poison
Until these tears should dry
I ask what meaning there is to such misery
And why I must know its name so well
And why I see glimpses of heaven
From amidst the brimstone, where I dwell
There was a time, the sun smiled upon me
For a moment, I knew what I lived for
Once, there was a song that sang in me
That sings in me no more
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