Well Played

Fickle melancholy
Unleashed her delight
Poignant her adaptation 
Bitter crisis of life

Beautiful rendition
Of misery's lament
Decry false modesty
The critic's circumvent

With nary a restrain
Comeuppance in aplomb
Musically inspired
Delivered in a song

Sweet chords of discontent
A broken martyr prayer
Wrested ordinary
This queen of masquerade

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