Blame the Fool (That I Once Was)
Once enthralled with my emotion
Now my feelings are declawed
How I held on to devotion
Loving, pining for a fraud
Ripped apart like so much chaff
My spirit, sapped and drained
Knowing always Love and Laugh
Soon only comedy remained
"I love you" I would hear her
Found out later it was lies
Stared sullenly in the mirror
Saw naught but melancholic eyes
But the past will not control me
I am the master of my fate
Yet it holds me down presently
An elephant on my breastplate
I despise my new oppression
Curse it with vast verbiage
Seeking cause to this depression
Finding there my own image
My thoughts are growing frantic
Keep it cool, ignore the buzz
Anger needs something cathartic
Blame the fool, that I once was