the punishment is in the stars
as if I sinned before my birth
as if pain was my destiny
I came to earth already cursed
when love abandoned me it seems
for what deceit I do not know
my hope absconded with the dusk
without relief or afterglow
now night conspires to steal my breath
to rob me of life’s simple joy
I find no pleasure in the breeze
where loneliness and death destroy
the stars yet twist a sharpened knife
to punish death and torture life
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