{"sf1_id":191141,"sf2_id":"dmW7dNvm","title":"The Fool","author":"Tunuko","words":216,"posted_at":"2010-11-01T23:08:00.000Z","tags":["M/F","Poetry","So Furry","hey"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/191141-the-fool","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmW7dNvm","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/3a/51/3a51774f-f2e0-40b7-ac03-2aa26828fc87","description":"","content":"The Fool  \n  \nDeep within the darkness of my soul  \nWhere no one has ever dared touch,  \nA man has left the widest hole  \nAnd I fear the pain may be too much.  \n  \nFor each and every single day  \nI see him flirt with another suitor,  \nIt makes me hurt every which way  \nAs I see him as an emotion polluter.  \n  \nIn the future I see my heart breaking,  \nFor the fool shall deny his calling,  \nAnd every inch of my body is aching,  \nInto the abyss I fear I am falling.  \n  \nAnd as each diamond tear runs from my face  \nAnd my cheeks glow rosy red,  \nI feel its the happiness that I must embrace,  \nAs I drift away in my bed.  \n  \nBut even now in my time alone  \nHis face shall plague my dreams.  \nThe agony and sorrow cuts right to the bone,  \nThere is no escape it seems.  \n  \nIn the morrow when I will awake,  \nI tell myself I should just remember,  \nNot for much longer will I have to ache  \nI must only survive through December.  \n  \nBut once the time comes, that day of reckoning,  \nI fear in darkness I will be cast.  \nFor my mind is always cruelly beckoning,  \nSorry you fool, but nice guys finish last.\n\n\u0026nbsp; - D. Ashford  \n\u0026nbsp;  \n  \n\n"}