Life/Time

Sometimes I am left to die as the stars they fall away,

Sometimes I’m an exploding planet that burns with sunstroke blaze.

Sometimes I’m a man awake still with a living dream,

And sometimes I will wake at night and never sleep again.

I am just a memory

And I am just a friend.

I am just the man who dies

When his story’s at its end.

I cannot speak in comforts and I cannot speak in faith,

I cannot speak with desperate lies to dry my eyes today.

I cannot die in silence and I cannot long for life,

When the life I live has naught to give to feed my tired eyes.

I am just a shadow,

And I am just a shade.

I am just the man who lives

And hopes he’ll die today.

I will not say I’m friendless and I will not say I’m dead,

I will not say that I’m alone when I live inside my head.

I will not say you killed me nor that you broke my heart,

You have no skill at acting and you hardly had a part.

I am just a human

And I am just a man.

I am just the man who sees

The joy in painful memories.

I’ll always know the strength of life and the pull to still go on,

I’ll always know the will to live when you think that will is gone.

I’ll always know the death in life and the torture that loss gives,

But I’ll live this life in strength and hope that I’m the one who lives.