I'M DEAD

So you've risen up to glory.
So you say you've etched your story.
So you think you need not worry.
That it's end will end up gory.

Your achievements, all your foes defeating.
Fade to dust within a moment fleeting.
Won't know when death's reaping.
'Til that fateful moment.

I'M DEAD

I have been long dead.
The one who climbed the apex of two regions.
Stained with red.

You who battled gods aand demons.
Clawing for the gold alone.
Will someday soon.
Face down your doom.
Your life will fade to monochrome.

You could be there.
Gazing down from up on high.
Time marches on;
You will someday fall forgotten from the sky

Hear the clock run down.
From the count of three.
It's song before you perish.
Fear it's melody.
The way of fate claims all who walk upon this world.

Conquered legends, faced two champions.
Saved the world from rising shadows.
What was the reward for blood and sweat shed by those.
REACHING TO GOD.

Just one moment.
Gone so fast, it lingers.
Heroes fall, rent down to shreds.
And swallowed by a dark oblivion's maw.

Winds of change blow ever on.
Erasing all you've done until the ash is gone.
And future generations will forget the deeds.
YOU'VE DONE.

In the vision of rubies, sapphires, promising the light.
Even brilliant diamonds, shining pearls.
Will drain away to black and white.

So you think your story's different.
So you hear, but will not listen.
Know that when your life is fizzled.
All that's gold no longer glistens.

Your achievements, all the songs you're singing.
Drown by funerary knells a-ringing.
As the dust to which you're clinging.
Crumbles, thinning.

I'M DEAD