In Time

I have seen the world through tainted lens And I have watched the clouds as they flit by Yes, I have known the world for what it is An outward-breathing, endless, dying sigh And I have watched as all things pass As man and woman walk still down to death And I have watched, forgotten past As life and lie both know their ending breath Ah, the world! Oh, the world! Product of a fading wave Ah, the world! Oh, the world! Lost at sea, forever staved! Frozen, I have watched the past Become the future yet once more Lost, 'thas wandered on the path Only to rebound off the shore Ah, I have watched the world outside of time I've seen the movement, ceased, all life gone terse, No more, that movement gone, that wave, sublime Has crashed to the infinite shore, dispersed