Doomstone

I've been waiting

all my life to see the light

Now I'm fading,

I'll be amongst the stars tonight

I'm the mirror

of when time had first begun

All shall be clearer,

I'll be staring right into the glowing sun

Lay me low, set a tombstone at my head

Just let me go with a rock in time to shield my bed

Just send me on

with living memories carved in lifeless stone

I shan't be gone

although the shades of life are shed

I'm on my own

where the feet of future generations tread

So I wander,

a pilgrim in a paradigm

I pace and ponder,

amidst the ravages of time

I'll sleep, laugh and hope no more

No more self-deception

No more blinding lies,

as the truth needs no disguise beyond schemes of perception

Laid to rest with a tombstone on my brow

The alkahest of powers stronger holds me now

I'll have my will,

within the golden halls I'll quaff

As time stands still,

I'll raise my cup to my own epitaph

I'll lisp the words

which represent the body in its stead

And they'll be heard

by the living and the sullen dead

Lay me low, set a tombstone on/at my head

Just let me go with a rock in time to shield my bed

And at the raising of my cup, there will be read, my epitaph

By the leaden tongues of the living and the dead

Who congregate, where all equate, as time stands still, within the shade

- So I wander -