Ode To Death

Ode To Death

A presence I find to be everywhere

As is life, so are you, in life, so in you

Are you and life companions, sharing

A space in time all will feel your touch

In birth given a lease on life

Yet you stalk in our coming forth

Moments while still in our unawareness

Our bodies are touched by you

See we were born into that untouchable

Yet touch by it, our wages of life is you

None shall escape your ever present reality

Earth cries out in agony, as if to escape

Your shadow is cast everywhere

It is evident in the seen and unseen

How can we flee, when all nights and days

Would not even try, we are all immersed

A conundrum caught in an enigma

Dare we try to understand; insanity steps in

For all we know, is this confusion 

It's as old as our existence when we strayed

Death and life kissed, all now feel the romance

Other worlds look on and can only hope

Encourage that it will not last

Closing scenes of this place are coming fast

Shadows cast are thick enough to touch

Touched even in the darkest of darkness

It started to the farthest reaches

Beyond all our machinations, imaginations

All ever lived here, overshadowed by you

This body, the only one I'll ever have here

I'm asked if it be taken to not fear

Everything not necessary to understand 

A greater presence holds all in His hand

Can take this that is dust, for the just

When all sleep on our darkest of nights 

Plans, hopes and dreams placed on hold 

If be for a chance to rejuvenate for another day

Many kept in this estate, to sleep away

Others released to live another day

May it be that moment our separation occurs

When these bodies after our toil, lay down

The aeons of eternity will now allow us in

Be encouraged the body we will come into

Be the one most pleasant and comfortable

It will feel as we always wore it 

Fit for us, even taylor made fit

The garment we wore, invisible, yet visible

Will be laid to rest, where is your sting!

Oh grave where is your victory! 

Just wait and see, finally we'll be free!