Wanting Change

I feel sorry for myself

For I will grow old with wealth

For my heart is cold like ice

Never learned love so I pretend to be nice

Though I want to change, I do not know How

And for that problem defeat I bow

But I am what I am

The storm before the calm

The pain before joy

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After Joy Comes Misery

I am the sweetest Fool ever known

A Black soul of love unsown

A description so strange, you wonder why

To tell you the truth, you’d begin to cry

For I do love a lover’s love

So limitless like the sky above

But even the sky has an end

Where nothingness and darkness starts it trend

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