We all get our last moments

Final thoughts before we leave

Some die slow others quickly 

All pass on without reprieve


We all have our last moments

Lagging thoughts soon departed

Some have more time than others

All end up where they started

Greedy, gluttonous, out-of-touch

See the fat-cat despots gorging

Hoggish, immoral, out to lunch

See the evil they are forging


Ruthless, villainous, slash-and-burn

See the well-off tyrants snatching

Callous, atrocious, on the prowl

See the shell games they are hatching


Artful, dishonest, on the grift

See the two-faced hustlers drooling

Piggish, self-seeking, off the rails

See the farmland they are ruling

Evil is as evil does

Round and round and round it goes

Evilness is everywhere

Nicely wrapped in pretty bows

Real hocus pocus charm

A bullet twixt the eyes

Presto alakazam

An ugly pack of lies 


Fake sorcery for fools

A tricky sleight of hand

Abracadabra hats

For heads deep in the sand

Life can be savage

So hard and unfair

Life can be gentle

A breath of fresh air


Life can be tender

So soft and sublime

Life can be fickle

An up-and-down climb


Life can be stony

So cruel and unjust

Life can be funny

A dream made of dust

There is no doubt

The god myth reeks

An ego trip

For stone-blind freaks

I'm sick to death of life itself

A man who roved right to the end

I've reached the final lap in life

And now must find a way to mend


I want to run away and hide

A child who wants to have his way

I've raced along the rainbow road

And now must limp in shades of grey


I'm on the outs with life itself

A man who knows when he is beat

I've reached the point of no return

And now must face the last defeat

We can't stop the saboteurs inside us

No matter how much we try to pretend

The crooked chorus of shouldered demons

Tag along with us beginning to end


We can't miss our own paths of destruction

No matter how far we veer from the stream

The inborn patterns of heredity

Press on with us every which way we dream

Life is but a fleeting twinkle

A sparkle on the sunlit sea

Life is but a flashy shimmer

A flicker starring you and me


Life is but a passing fancy

A Roman candle in the night

Life is but a dreamy glimmer 

A flutter with our end in sight

Nothingness looms like a stake

Gripped by good old father time

Hammered home by hands of fate

Shadowing my downhill climb


Nothingness is all we get

Gone to dark and deadened doom

Driven home by destiny

Sitting tight inside my tomb

What is the secret to success

What makes us fight and win the day

What is the answer to our fears

What gives us strength to the find our way


What is the special secret sauce

What makes the best in us succeed

What is the topping of them all

Why love of course is all we need

It's looking bad in fact quite bleak

Our world is going down in flames

Such a mess and we're still in it

Now acting out the final frames


It's looking grim in fact quite sad

Our universe is nearly broke

Such a jam we're growing old in

But now at least we get the joke


It's looking up in fact quite bright

Our earth is giving us more time

Such a gift and glad to know it

Now basking in the land of rhyme

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