Thoughts fester and wallow in retrospection
Regret reclines upon your left shoulder
Gloom unforgiving sits upon your right
Growing in expanse and ever bolder
Surrounded by the colors of night

Vacant is the once brilliant soul
That was the road to gain freely chosen
Ah unwelcoming heart bloodless and morose
Once pulsating with love and life now infinitely frozen

Indeed it becomes you
As glittering tomorrows metamorphose into yesterdays
Anger devours the fruitless effort
To unburden one's self of taunting shades
No words of this world shall relay that which awaits
The unwavering constant confusion of days

When Regret at leisure sits upon your left hand
Gloom hushed and brooding
Convenes with melancholy upon your right
Come the watching murmuring somber shadows
Provoking madness in the mind.

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