coffin nails

[nightshifft]

coffin nails




sitting idle waiting


wanting something different in your life


twenty one turns to fifty one


and nothing has changed


your still sitting there


only time has marked the passing


each breath you take


every year that slips by


another coffin nail stealing your life


go to work do the job


smile at your friends


drive another nail


when your sitting alone


late at night


quietly you cry and ask why life is so unfair


drive another nail


nothing lost nothing gained


you cant win


if you wont even play the game


you watch your friends so happy


smiling laughing inviting you to join


you smile and polity decline


maybe next time you will try


drive another nail


you sit and dream about the life you desire


the love you seek seems just out of reach


all the plans you make


as life passes you by


older and older you become


take another pill another doctors visit


drive another nail


you never know which to do these days


to cry or to laugh


or to sit numbly and watch the world glide past


lonely picking up your hammer you


drive another nail


till at last the work is done


alone gasping your last breath


carefully not to disturb


the epitaph you spent a life time


carving into time worn face


you drive the last nail home


nobody to witness


what you have wrought


except death


and his bag of rusty


coffin nails




dark

[ampoule]

Yes, dark indeed, but you cannot hammer the nails from inside.