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Little Balladeer angeli sta. maria
Tiny hands,
A child's voiced,
A child's heart
    and spirit...

little balladeer
let us hear your heartbeat
O, pure is your spirit
and steady is your heartbeat.

Little balladeer, sing-
let your voice call the lost
    so that they hearken to your innocence
let your song drown out the tumult,
    the noise, the dissaray
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The Greatest Pain In Life
The greatest pain in life is not to die, but to be ignored.

To lose the person you love so much to another who doesn't care at all.

To have someone you care so about so much throw a party and not tell you about it.
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Time Glass ojmj
11 p.m. Neither light nor shadow
satiated this so-called insanity. I'm staring
at this fragile time glass.
Each grain mercilessly finds its
way down the narrow depths. Until
the last grain falls.

To the moist-ridden glass. With pushing,
outstretched arms I feel the
warmth. That never was.
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CONTENTS

* Little Balladeer

* The Greatest Pain in Life

* Time Glass

* Q&A

* Hiding

* Daughter of satan

* Deathbox

* Roses are red, Violets are blue (not those poems but familiar)

* Backstabber

* Everything Changes

* Fantasia Di Muore

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