Innocents, hark and listen!
Everything has a beginning, middle, and end
Nothing lasts forever
The sooner you come to grips with it
The better off your life will be
For you see, that is the cycle of life
Careers do not last forever
Friends do not last forever
Love does not last forever
The life of your love will not last forever
Your life will not last forever
Where you stand right now
in the situation you are
Will not last forever
All you can do is live in the here and now
But be aware of where you stand
And love the person in the stage you are in
Knowing
This will be all you ever have together,
This briefest moments in time
So love them with all your heart
and then let them go
Things change
You can chose to be bitter about it
or
You can chose to live in the moment
and cherish it right then and there
There is no heaven and hell
There is only right here on earth
Reality is heaven if you embrace it
Hell is your own mind if you sink into it
Forget your dreams, they are only lies
phantoms, to steal your time away, pursuing them
like chasing a shadow through the forest in your mind
Look at the people around you
Its a test don't you see
Life exists for one reason and one reason only
just because
Your mind is realities way of knowing itself
Live your life and have fun
Soon you will be dead
Just like those of hundreds of years ago
Whose moment of thought seemed just as fresh
as yours does now
This quiet dust was laughter, frocks, and curls
and boys and girls
was this now quiet dust....