The dark mist moves through, scanning the local...
Looking for a weak person, pushing to imbibe...

Cradling myself, home-restraint,
Hoping to make a world that I can't create...

Wishing for something,
But I don't know what it is...

Cuddling our old blanket,
Smelling that scent...

Pretty flowers still bloom, although they may have...
Openly they live in splendor, and bleakness they...

Cloudy times, they seem to never leave,
But nothing helps me; I don't know how to grieve...

Oh, little girl, why don't you leave your bed?
The morning is shining bright; rays of sunshine...

I was surprised to see you,
But there you were...

To You I ask forgiveness,
To the secular world, I do not repent...

It's just a sad, lonely, old world,
Without you to bless me in it...

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I'm sitting here alone on the steps, and it's been...

I have spent a lifetime being a selfish brute,
Rarely was a word spoken--to anyone--that was...