From Childhood's hour I have not been
as others were, I have not seen
as others saw, I could not bring
my passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
my sorrow, I could not awaken
my heart to joy at the same tone,
and all I lov'd, I lov'd alone.
THEN-in my childhood, in the dawn
of a most stormy life, was drawn
from every depth of good and ill
the mystery which binds me still.
From the torrent, or the fountain,
from the red cliff of the mountain,
from the sun that 'round me rolled
in its autumn tint of gold
from the lightning of the sky
as it passed me flying by
and the thunder, and the storm,
and the cloud that took the form
(when the rest of Heaven was blue)
of a demon in my view....


For those of you that live in a cardboard box and don't know, that is by Edgar Allen Poe.


Fuck my life.