The Reaper calls come to me
She's fogged with pain, it's difficult to see
She senses his presence in the chilly room
Knowing what he wants, she doesn't have to assume
He calls her softly with pity on his breath
She knows he's come to enfold her in death
A tear falls down her now pale cheek
All senses failing, she feels so weak
For so long she thought she was going insane
She's prayed for him to come and relieve the pain
She looks at her family one and all
While the reaper waits at the end of the hall
They see her slipping and their tears start falling
At the same time the reaper is calling
She looks to her savior and nods her head
Feeling sudden hope, there is no fear or dread
He takes her frail hands and looks into her eyes
It's time to go. Have you said your goodbyes?
Yes I have, my savior my friend
I am ready now and know my life's at it's end
As his arms engulfed her, she felt life shifting
She signed with relief as the pain began lifting
He said let us go home. It's time to move on
A tear rolled down her cheek and then she was gone.
Above the whispers on the evening breeze
I stand alone before the salty seas
But fragmentary visions bring no peace,
As conflict compositions now must cease.
The tortured war for Vietnam has bled
Inside my mind it climbed around and fed
Upon the Holy blood behind the sign
Of new contrition and old Dago wine.
Your faith along with friends has disappeared
Still buried in that jungle where you feared That everything you dreamed would be in vain -
Like nightmare memories inside insane!
When smokin' priestly weed you seem to find
That silence slides inside your troubled mind.
Then silence bleeds inside the life you lead
Some crabby-assed old priest now fills your need.
Your wife and children left so long ago
As sickness in your brain began to grow
So you've become a shell stripped of its gears
Aladdin on his carpet brought to tears.
You have no way to make your say today
And I will be here watching all the way.
Tradition climbed inside your little mind
And silence is the sound it left behind
You wander round and ponder gods believed
In silence god's sat tight and would not leave.
You asked the Father Pope to give a tip
But settled when he offered you a sip.
The sunshine through your window pane at dawn
Reduces you from Knight to worthless Pawn.
The Checkmate of your brain is causing pain
And sunshine leaves you longing for the rain.
At night the dead come visiting your room
While you assume thet're absent from the tomb,
But truth be known their deep inside your bone;
Within the marrow you can hear them moan.
They speak with tremored voices of the dead
Who now crawl up beside you in your bed.
Control is lost, if ever owned at all,
At last you hear the mighty Reaper's call!
COMMENTS
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myonlydarkangel
17:50 May 05 2010
very deep and moving. you have a real insight.
MOONLITDREAM
05:02 Mar 23 2011
You have a way with the pen to exude brillance.
DarkxSidexOfxThexMoon
16:40 Mar 31 2011
I agree with Moonlitdream..
If death is as silent and swift as you describe, I will have no fear when he comes to collect my soul one day.. :)