​One By One

Every falling leaf, every drop of rain, every passing season,

We live these lives with joy, confusion but mostly pain,

For what ever reason,

How could we ever know,

But still comes a time,

A day not very far,

We will leave this earth, leave behind our skins and all it’s scars,

One by one,

Some of us swallow countless pills,

Some drink ourselves indifferent,

It’s not the sadness nor the anger, it’s the loneliness,

Thats what kills,

Destroys a whole life lived, man from infant,

It all ceases to matter, every step, all the distance,

That’s our meaning,

The lack thereof,

One by one,

We will leave behind all we’ve ever known and embrace a void, only because,

One by one,

We return from whence we came,

One by one,

The next generation comes, their experiences all the same,

For we are just pain having a human experience,

For such is life on Earth, ever so mysterious.