Facing Mortality

Another passing, quiet tears A time of reckoning, a few more beers Once wooded, now populated, concrete Where crickets chirped, now a street Dreams dying, goals unreached, a new reality Coming face to face with your own mortality Material achievement, awards on the wall Of no real value, please take them all To change the world but the drive is gone There's a torch still burning, can you pass it on Stars in the sky whose light will not diminish Journey toward dreams that you'll never finish There is a peace in memories, pain doesn't last The future intimidates but not the past Different roads but the same destination Reaching back in sheer frustration Fearing places where we don't know what we'll find Thinking back to all we left behind Another passing, quiet tears A time of reckoning, a few more beers.