Bitter End

Reclusive silence

Slips through my hands

As time stands still

Like empty fallen sand

Embrace the fading light

A sense of terminal fright

A veil to be aware

No escape to anywhere

Priests of solemn dread

Are living in my head

Traitors of the soul

No churches left to go

Illusions of our lives

Can cause our demise

As we sail to the stars

Not knowing how far

Through isolation

Comes wisdom of innocence

Empirical minds

Leave nothing behind

Except the bitter end

Through the living trees I see

Human blind disease

The shape of things to come

Tomorrow's child is

On the run

For severance has begun

There is no shelter

From the storm

There's no way home

For we are alone

In this final atomic zone

As hatred unfolds

The danger is real

Humans and diseases

A final word

Life is absurd

Nothing left to see

For you and for me