As Once I Was - Alabaster Deplume

There they will be

As once I was

As once

I was?

On the rotten longing

And the wronging long forgotten

On the dross

Hope that want that wants wants

Loss

As once I was

And as they do

And as they mean to do

And as I was once won’t to, too

What one wants and

What one once was wanting

And what wanting was

On the rotten longing

On the wronging long forgotten

What wanting was

Garrot the lot

Not forgot, but lost

The loss?

The lot

What once I would have had to have got

Once

Which was

While the while

One day

Will be

Once

What?

A swan’s eye

A song’s cry

A solemn sigh

As once I

Was