I prefer to think of him

As a man of many means

Of powers extreme

Disposed to the extreme

Nature so determined

He may never change his mind

The only possible excuse

For pretending to be blind.

Petition for a life unknown

To all my predecessors shown.

I can't know the why of this

His motives are mysterious

His anger extreme

Disposed to the extreme

Has he a hidden past

My memories they don't go back

Enough to remember what

I'm supposed to lack.

Petition for a life unknown

To all my predecessors shown.

For those who've never had

You keep coming back

You take, take, take away

Till the very last.