Life Sentence

We’re doing time on planet earth, our sentence started right at birth The sentence is, we’re here for life and with mistakes it will be rife The sentence cannot be commuted – We’re here ‘til to dust we’ve been transmuted We’re sentenced here with other lifers & follow each our own Pied Pipers We walk our paths from birth to death marking time with each drawn breath & when our sentence comes to end, we hope to heaven we’ll ascend Where, free from being bound in time, we’ll start to know a joy sublime And see that real life never dies – we just transform like butterflies We’ll lay aside our outer shells and rise above our private hells