Does it carry on forever
Beyond a broad shadow
Untiring, relentless and cold?

Can the hapless care
Of a new day’s warmth
Fall forever, in abundance
To sustain the impassioned soul?

Will I cling to awareness
From beyond the living shore
As a servant to the waves
In their voyage
From my sorrowful kin?

Does it carry on forever?
Am I fated to perceive
Beyond the flesh
In benevolence
Beyond the shroud of death?