She goes with eyes asparkle
She goes with eyes asparkle
to the threshold of her being
with a body svelte and pliant
and her arms awaiting love,
but her journey isn't finished
before her innocence is taken
and her body as a vessel
is spent from push and shove,
but beyond her pain and suffering
is the thought of her appearance
as she goes slowly earthwards
and her soul goes up above,
but death is not a symptom
of the way we count our blessings
as we travel with two pennies
upon our blinded eyes,
and all those we leave behind us
can memorise our visage
but will never know our true selves
from our misdeeds and our lies,
and beyond the our earthly vessels
what happens to our thoughts
as our earthly brain decays
and our essence slowly dies?
but tales of heroes' travels
upon a sea of anguish
can never guide us clearly
to a place we'd long to be
across the styx we travel
with our right of passage
and still we mix the message
and find we're all at sea,
but thoughts of stygian greetings
might buoy us for the journey
to Elysian fields of the mighty
who awaits with cakes and tea!