To Death… A toast in tainted wine
Let glasses ring its somber chime
As shadows cast its name in black
To Death we walk… with no path back

To Death… whose fame has spanned the ages
Only love has penned more pages
Only time outlives its quill
To Death … To Death until all is still

To Death… and to its secret kept
While all that live have stood and wept
To Death… and to its final kiss
I give a life… I shall not miss


© JVD 1993
 
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