now you can lie down

and savor your defeat

grow bitterly relieved

in the sweltering heat


life is never

as we imagine it to be

and it is only in shock of clarity

that we begin to see


all we thought we did for good

turned out to be all wrong

and to accept this heavy fact

requires a spirit that is strong


anyone who says otherwise

has yet to taste this grief

anyone who accedes will know

the shaking of his belief


and keep his counsel

unless the hurting ask for mercy

then you can rise up again

and heal this common misery


for them for you for all who ache

only this one cure will take...



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