Life Runs Out Like Sand - Bill Nelson

In this ever changing world

In these times

These days of challenge

As my systems begin to fail

I hear voices

Beyond the veil …

Love decays

Under our dying star

Strange how time delays

The knowing who we are …

As the years slip through my hand

My life

Runs out

Like Sand …

I will play a poison lullaby

In fields of gravity

Under a falling sky …

As the day

Slow-fades away

Warning shadows

Crawl across my walls of grey …

Sweetness drips

From the exquisite corpse

Sleeping sickness

Grips at every ghost who walks

As the years slip through my hand

My Life

Runs Out

Like Sand