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In Hope That Unfortunates Will Find a Better Life Next Time Around

They have nothing, but somehow their feelings are the same,

The same as a normal person,

Hushed in uncontrollable penitence

 

Their eyes are shut, but somehow they see the torture

the torture that is the world,

stirring in unquestionable fate.

 

They sing without knowing the rhyme or reason,

the reason that leads them in circles

Ever entwining amongst their endless torment.

 

Wonderless is their world, unique in their innocence

Their innocence which is a world within a world

Cruel but still living.

 

Living in a world of wonder

A wonder to them that is too broad, deep and strong

To understand the lonely meaning.

 

Their life will never raise itself beyond this turmoil

This turmoil of scattered tins and jangling objects

Their pearls of wisdom

 

They are many,

But perhaps theirs is a special existence

which will be bettered.

 

No sins will destroy them

And perhaps they will be better in the

Next world for this.

 

Slow words will never be known again

Speech will not matter,

For theirs will be the honour, theirs the glory.