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‘Twas only moments ago, my cup poured out

Only moments ago, took only moments, lasts many moments

Now I feel for an empty flask

My hands grope blindly

Any vintner knows not to mix

Separate draughts in a single vessel

Yet in my greed, and hasty quest

I gobbled as much as my gullet would fill

My wineskin fit to burst

And doused in the wrath of grapes, I.

No, my wineskin dried and shriveled yields dust alone

Trying to slake my thirst and sustain goblet, I slosh about

Clumsily in a drunken stupor.

Rain wets Gods earth,

Turning dust into muck and mire

Swine with their rooting snouts mull

Cast into them, I belong

No pearls among swine,

Only swine among swine

Do not children live with parents?

And hens in the coop?

Why then do I reside in the realm of man

For I killed a maiden fair, times many more

With the selfish hunger of my heart’s lust

I betrayed my people,

With the wagging of my tongue,

Forsook my kingdom,

With the rolling of mine eyes.

Those evil blue orbs, cracked and red

Weeping angry blood at my own regret.

I wander through the wilderness, naked and savage,

Here, Guilty and innocent,

I stand alone.