Descending

I'm lowered into the ground

Returning to ashes and dirt

In the casket's confines

Oblivion bound

Consumed by the earth

Life-like

Flowers adorn mourner's hands

A funeral procession in bloom

An ironic parade

Life eternal interred

Immortality's doom

Returning to ashes and dirt

Dreading the day since forever

Time has digested my flesh

Irrevocably drained it of youth

I anticipate death

The shadows in my path reflect mortal truths

Tainted

Death on my mind since day one

Tomorrow all shrouded in gloom

With fear I remain

Smothering darkness invading my room

The world is a tomb

And we are all dead

From cradle to grave like the blind we are led

Nearing our time with every breath

In this world our tomb

We all look like death

Ashen with grief

Shades of death an abhorrent motif

No hope to be found in religious beliefs

My face ashen with grief

The world is a tomb

And we are all dead

From cradle to grave like the blind we are led

Nearing our time with every breath

In this world our tomb

We all look like death

Ashen with grief

Shades of death an abhorrent motif

No hope to be found in religious beliefs

My face ashen with grief