I knew you some years before

Deep in prayer under bough

Futile sighs in vital skin

Your flesh caressed by night



Yet change came quickly

A bruise in the air, it staggered within

Sweet sickly rot

Black wound infection



King, slave, child

Your fates are united

An unending row to the grave

A single dance now, all eyes are shut

Blind to the earthly



Begging now to forget who I am

Emperor, your sword is useless

Shattered crowns so swiftly

Fragile as the scythe



Aching bones cling to swollen limbs

Despair floods all senses

The world is dying around me



Gaping in mirth, his old eyes spoke

Where you are now - I once was

And what I am now - you soon will be

Nothingness awaits you



Begging now to regain what I've lost

The tale of life is but a picture

A flash in an abyss, a dream in the void



See that there is no meaning,

Understand eternal death

You long now to try what you once feared

But the time is gone and dust will be your legacy