Soon We Shall Be No More

Soon we shall be no more, Comes the time when we take leave of this earth, Glancing back like life’s jilted paramour, With naught but our baggage of sorrow and mirth. All our passions by eternity ignored, Unforgettable moments forgotten by time, No hate, no love to shake us to the core, Lost to the stars, all that for which we pine. Ten years on, none but a few will remember, Ours among the countless lives that have passed, Fifty years hence, not a memory will linger, Of the journey ‘tween our first breath and our last. How little it matters, what we do under time’s rule, Defeats, failures, heartbreaks, all will matter not, Only the hand that's stayed by fear, earns our rue, Our blushes saved, our dreams condemned to rot. Soon we shall be no more, We are, by time soon forgotten, by time set free, To dance naked on this transient shore, And defy oblivion’s curse, deaf to caution’s plea.