Succession

I lay beside you

Ignited, for the thousandth time

Who will light it

When there's no one left alive

I beg forgiveness for forgetting

With all the years gone by

Alone and lost in time

This skin belongs to me

But I'll lie in flames and soon be free

All you've known, all you've seen

Falls to ash, grows (fades) to green

In the age of rebirth

You'll return, roots and earth

I beg forgiveness for forgetting

I staggered in through the trees

To a place where lilies grow

To a place that I did know

In an age so long ago

I fell to my knees

In a place where lilies grow

Where ashes found their home

I sank through the leaves

in that place where lilies grew

near a thousand years ago

I can't be blamed

There's no remembrance in after days

When the distance is an age

and the years have changed our face