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A Loan Too Late
Cassandra lend me your eyes
 So I may see what you have seen
 And protect my fragile buds
 From those dry, withering glares. 
 Maybe then I can bring warning to the world.
 Maybe then people will see. 
 
 Cassandra lend me your ears
 So that I may hear what you heard
 Those hoarse catcalls from jeering skeptics
 And see how you responded.
 Maybe then I can avoid your fate. 
 Maybe then I can save them. 
 
 Cassandra lend me your hands
 Those gentle fingers calloused with the brush
 That painted Apollo's rejection so long ago.
 Give them to me now, for sacrifice to the gods.
 Maybe then people will hear my warnings.
 Maybe then people will stop the genocide.
 
 Cassandra lend me your nose
 So that I may smell what disbelief truly is
 The stank odor of rotting lies
 And sideways glances, never sure.
 Maybe then I can avoid them.
 Maybe then I can be heard. 
 
 Cassandra lend me your mouth
 So that I may say the right things
 And persuade those who do not listen
 With the honeyed spur of bitter truth.
 Maybe then they will help out.
 Maybe then the world will change.
 
 Cassandra lend me your pain
 For now I am forsaken
 And I have naught but that.
 Cassandra we stand together. 
 Now I may lend you my eyes
 My ears
 My hands
 My nose
 My mouth
 But I will not lend you my pain
 For you have enough.

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