LAST GOODBYE

Come close, sit by me
Let me sing you a lullaby
One last song, my last try
To fix you before we have to say goodbye

Close your eyes, rest your head
Against the steel that is now your rose bed
Look serene, let go of the pain
Let the words flow, no refrain

Let us talk, one by one
Of all the things that we have done
All the things we have seen, in time
Time that we have seen, crawl and run

Some good things, small and few
That took their time in reaching us
Made us smile for some moments sweet
Before going back to the grief we'd grown accustomed to

A few words about what we got
In return for a lifetime of death
The last tries, the last thought
Everything we did while we fought

One last shot, one more try
Not in vain, if not for the lie
Was all we begged, all we asked
One last wish before we had to die

Hail the winds, hail time
Hail everything that they take away
Hail their courage and their cold heart
That we begged for but never got

Do not speak, do not complain
Just think of all that we gave away
To the existence of a universe:
That which we had been banished from

But leave all that, let me tell you
Of all the minutes that we sat together
Looked in opposite directions, trying not to cry
Thought of the same thing: good times when we would die

Face to face amid cold winds we'd sit
For hours at end, in empty silence
We'd tell each other our stories true
And wondered if breathing is the mistake we do

Now, though, those times are gone
At the end of a journey slow and long
I sing my last lullaby to you
In hope that forever, you may remember me too

Now, please, leave my hand
Its okay, not that bad
Death is calling me back home
Back to the place where I belong

Don't say sorry, please don't apologize
The broken me can not break anymore
I can't look at the agony on your face
Without turning into ash, I can't meet your painful gaze

I'll see you on the other side
Meet you in front of heaven's gates
Won't take long, not much time
I'll go and wait for you in my true life

Go on, now, it's time to sleep
Embrace peace, lie in ease
Close your eyes, take slow deep breaths
Dream again: do what we can do best
                                                                                                                                        --Arrow Black