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A boy who lived upon the shore

With family and friend alike

Always amazed and always free

He had fallen in love with life



From the beginning of his time

He had never shed a tear

For there wasn't any despair

It's all he wanted, all he knew



But then, like any other tale

Darkness came crashing from above

And all that he had come to learn

Was ripped away in an instant



The angry storm raced far away

And the small boy was left alone

Staring blankly out to the sea

Wondering why he was betrayed



The ocean was once called his friend

It had helped raise and nurture him

And suddenly it turns away

And lashes out at its public



Though his family is lost

And his friends have now departed

His eyes show no sign of sorrow

But desperation is revealed...



Many years have passed us by

And the subject of our tale

Has gone through so very much

As he kneels upon the cold earth



Why does he stare at his hands?

What stains them and scorches his soul?

At the same time, his mask fades

Since that day, he has unravelled



After so long, he cannot weep

Not out of joy, but out of pain

His heart has grown too cold

And he has become numb to all



But when he sees a sweet woman

Crying over her sweet, dead child

It is not the corpse that he fears,

But the sight of tears upon her cheeks



He believes it unnatural

These symbols of their despair

He sees the liquid as poison

And its creator the source



He returns to reality

Only to slay the thing he dreads

The generator of these

Primitive sources of relief



All over the country side

He ends the misery of strangers

He believes he is doing good

For the world and its "normal ones"



For he has become infamous

Without knowledge of this concept

It is a perfect example

Of an overlooked boundary



For the line between joy and sorrow is thin,

And we've forgotten where it is placed.

He is destined to roam until he becomes unlucky,

And his false principles turn away from him,

Such as the ocean had once done so long ago...



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