Life is torture Death is bliss,
numbness hunger pain a kiss.
To love is prison, emptiness is release,
Peace brings violence war brings peace.
To tempt is to teach to learn is to sin,
to give is an end, to take begin.
Existence is a cycle,
there is truth to this part,
the heart a beginning Oblivion a start.
-Andrew Senior
Elegy's Overture 