The Same Die Is Cast for One and All
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"A life that's full of all the wealth and riches
Can never last for an eternity....
Prophecy of sky gods, the sun and moon
Passing of old ways will come true soon
They were praying to the gods of nature
And were living in the cities of stone
Towers reaching upward to the heavens
Sacred wonders for the world unknown
The lost book of souls, destruction begins."
- Extracts from The Book of Souls, a song by Iron Maiden
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The name of every soul
is written line by line,
without highlights or underlining
in the leaves of pages
of the book of souls.
The stone temples built
by kings that rise to the heavens,
fall as empires fade and crumble,
when the ledger must be made.
No human god can barter with the end,
no king can forever
outrun the roll-call
for their entry in the book of souls.
Praying to the gods of nature
building towers of stone
reaching skywards to the heavens
is all to no avail.
For the same die
is cast, one for all.
With the passing of old ways
truth comes to all and sundry soon.
Etched in ink, bled from every soul,
each blot and stain
is recorded alike, one and all,
in the book of souls.
Copyright © John Anderson | Year Posted 2025
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