• As the evening falls one last time,
    My life�s essence slipping away
    Like the sunlight at winger solstice,
    Often do I reflect back,
    On the early chapters of my time.
    Wasted were the words that I spoke,
    And spent were my actions before thought, so many times.
    Lost was my heart so long ago, very long ago
    When I spurned the only woman I loved.
    These final breaths given to me by God
    At last expelling from my decrepit body�
    Now I wonder, after my many years on Earth,
    Did I really lead a good life?
    Did I take the chance to savor every moment
    That should have been blessed by an unseen lord?
    Where did I go wrong in my path and
    Stop listening to the music of the world?
    But now my ears are clogged with death,
    My eye closed and mind turned off to everlasting beauty and grace.
    The warmth of a woman and the burn of alcohol
    Will no longer chase away this chill that grows�
    At last the light has come for me
    To guide me to my path, that door at the very end,
    When I make my last stand this time
    All I can ask for my lord, is that
    You hear my request for forgiveness, my Lord
    And lead my departing soul, oh Lord,
    Into the tranquility that is the end of time.