Why did I have to know you?
Why did we have to meet?
Surely, I would have gotten by
life could have been complete
if you had never said hello
things would have been just fine
why did you have to complicate
the whole of my design?
You gave me colors in the gray,
so rich where there were none.
and sounds and sensuous designs,
as no one else had done.
as none before or since could do
I know, for since that day
the energies have all expired
you took them all away
Now I stagger with no path
through mazes every where
why did you have to be at all
and leave me in despair?
I've asked myself this question
a score of times and yet
I'd be content to never know
if I could just forget.













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