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"... All the world is sad and dreary,
Ev'rywhere I roam ..."
From song "Old Folks at Home" by Stephen Foster
Oh Lord,
Take from me this sensitivity
This awareness of humanitys' suffering
This unasked for ability to see
To feel
The pain we heap on one another.
I don't want to wear black no more.
