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Born in a world of aberrations

Disgusted by veiled inveracities

Concealed are my pains and sorrows

A shelter against this vile world

An arcanum for intruding eyes and minds

No one will ever know what’s within this shell.

Behind the walls of this dark fort

Dwells the anchorite of my Self

With random raptures of bliss

Destined to wither away

With doleful thoughts to oblivion

Dark personal rises feeling

Of a curse within myself

A soul once safe within its dread

Now jolting in a cradle of sin.

Tears of a sad man - ripped apart by despair

Tears of a mad man - a night which never dispels

Fears of sad man - a nightmare that always recurs

Tears of a sad man – fears chilling the bones

Blundered by dismal thoughts

My ‘Brutus’ inside has emerged and fled

Only to leave my penitent eyes

Behold the ‘Julius’ I have stabbed?

Contrite I defer

To a destiny brought forth

By an offence never meant

Craving the shelter of thine embrace.

Tears of a sad man - ripped apart by despair

Tears of a mad man - a night which never dispels

Fears of sad man - a nightmare that always recurs

Tears of a sad man – fears chilling the bones

Shattered is the icon

In the shrine of thine eyes

By this act so loathsome

For which reason no one knows...

For which reason I will never know

Tears of a sad man - ripped apart by despair

Tears of a mad man - a night which never dispels

Tears of a sad man