The End and the Beginning (Again)

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No more can I pretend.
This time it's really the end,
and it seems that it's over
before it started.

Something went wrong,
and now I can't go on.
My heart once knew laughter,
but I could not show it.
Now this hopeless hereafter
endures. Too well I know it.

Just look upon this face
and know that fleeting time
these memories will erase.

All hint of yesterday,
all will be swept away,
and broken dreams and fallen tears
will ebb before a tide of years,
and wash upon a rocky shore
until they are no more;

and this is the end
and the beginning
again.