As Time Seeps By Part Three

(Continued from part two, third and conclusion) But someone else never came Just loneliness with all its pain He retired Chairman of the Board Wealthy, admired, the envy of his peers Sadden, bewilder at night he slept in his tears The friends are all gone, his parents at rest And he's growing weaker, nearer to his death Then the vision stopped, the words came to an halt I open my eyes the sands were at the bottom Death rose His eyes of glass stone turn to a flame red "It is Time" He took both his bone hands and plunged them Deep into my heart And my spirit from body did he part As I descended in Death's Arms My rotting flesh on the bed did it lay A sight to sad for my heart to see Not a tear had been wept from me The body though lifeless it had always been The color had long left the skin Hair on the balding head was bleached white Hands were like bone with the skin stretched tight Dried wrinkled the body did stay Strangers took it to an unmarked grave With his sickle he did slash And we descended through the windows glass "Death" asked my spirit "where are we to go?" "Surely he said you must know Your life was void and cold, alone did you live So shall you be in the world of the Dead Rest your feeble spirit now For the Day shall come When you shall answer for all you done" And after that he laid my spirit into earth I have return to the clay which gave man birth As I lay here in darkness in my grave Waiting alone for that Day My thoughts return to that night in the bar And face reappears of a love afar Gently now my spirit rests As my soul eternally lies My haunted heart at peace As Time Seeps By