All Life Ends

My life fades, my visions dim All that remains are memories I remember a time of chaos Time of war As men began to feed on man Only the scavengers survived Gone now, swept away For reasons long forgotten Touched of a blase Which engulfed them all A firestorm of fear The answer is written in their bones All life ends I remember an old man Griping my wrist, he was dying "Imagine", he said "Looking into the eyes of a nova, The bursting flames, the roar of it's energy Faintly echoing down the corridors of time, Whispering: all life ends "Death, he said "is like a bolt of lightning, Light cast upon every secret, Just for a moment, till the last spark of life fades And all is dark" Then he breathed out his last breath into my ear His gaze already way out among the stars Among the ruins of the past I shelter from the storm My mind is numb from the loneliness And the rain that never stops This wasteland, once a beautiful place Where trees and flowers grew Where deer, and squirrels had their home Now rotting are their bones Where raging waters grind the earth I go to end my days The sea that witnessed mankind's birth Shall watch us die again Black and deep, Empty of life As in the heaven so below The sun has now forever set And bids our time to go I am tired And I fear not The cold that now descends As light grows dim, I bid farewell All life ends I am leaving now, my body stiff Just watching for a while That rigid shell, so small and weak A corpse on a broken cliff The stars are calling me now With distant, speechless voices And caught by a wind I drift away And nothing calls me to stop I am ridin' the wind that has no name, The fire that burns without a flame Caught by the spell on which all depends, All life ends The answer is written in my bones, All life ends