A crying shame
To fetch oneself a crying name
From regularized dirty game
Choosing to not be The Tame,
Forgetting where from we came
Good and Evil treating as same;
The soul damning for fame
And oneself ceaselessly blame
The Once – Pretty, Shriveled Dame
Having chosen to be the Spiritual Lame
To paradise laying not a claim.
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