The Fool

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Innate, the heart pines to drown

Doomed to entomb in arid grounds

Treading the traps of ruse and lust

A slip, a stagger, in gore and dust

Time and again, the glim ignites

Doggedly naive, the dreamer fights

Quashing the squall of stale despair

Braiding the ballad of yearning, bare


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