Death’s Failure

End of my tracks have come
Will I sink or swim at the crash
All my dying days come collecting
And I’m left standing on the edge

Meet all my failures on the way down
Land safely on jagged mess of
My pour broken down self lost long ago
No surprise it felt familiar

Among those bones I can see pieces of me
So long ago that rib was crushed
Pulled away to get to my barely there heart
Drive as many stakes through, continues to beat

A new peace surrounds this tattered
Soul left to sit endlessly alone
By the glow of candle light
Forced to see what could be me

Never ending movie these walls play
Every potential ability that could have been
Now crushed along the way down
Was it all a terrible dream or reality

Contemplate all my moves made
Every step taken in mistake
Follow them to their ends
Clues lost upon me as it starts

Everything I could be muddied
By all that I am left to be
Its all so clear to me now
Spread my wings on my way down

My soul still can learn
That death is not my end
But much rather your beginning
Hold your own shield up proud

I’ve met the man in black
Same man quickly turned away
Fire burning deep inside of me
Burns hotter that fires of hell

Heaven denied and hell forbids
My soul now free to just be
So I’ll sit by my lonely candle
Contemplating all I am with a smile

Maybe I’ll visit with you once in a while
Hope for to see your smile
As that memory of me
It does linger fresh from dreaming