The artist's greatest creation beganthe night he washed his memory of his failuresrubbed opium on his lipsdrank the wine that women offered himand lay down and wept.
He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and kept him up at night.
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And each one there has one thing shared;They have sweated beneath the same sun,Look up in wonder at the same moon,And wept when it was all done,For being done too soon.
Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.
I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...
She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her.