What Is Waiting

Discover me, my time from memories Fleeting glimpses of a gleaming persistence Portraits will hang, of memories we made Hung in hallways we will never walk again In reverie, silence will comfort me Pondering existence in the conflict of shallow breathing I will flee my bones Consciousness will collapse Our time has come and gone Every loved one's voice surrounds me Singing me to a deep sleep Oh, it's always on my mind And I can't sleep tonight Darkness plagues me, I'm paralyzed What is waiting on the other side? Absent beings Removed of my body I leave the world behind Omniscient, reborn And if I knew then what I know now I would have made some changes, rewrote the ending Rewrite regret Oh it's always on my mind And I can't sleep tonight Darkness plagues me, I'm paralyzed What is waiting on the other side? When you know it ends... And how we get there has yet to be defined To spend your time consumed with thoughts of a life you've led A lack of direction is wearing down your weary head I terrify myself for I am the cancer that's killing me There's just no way to know how life will ebb and flow Measure the journey, rejoice in the ending I want you to know I want you to know I want you to know Don't lay your head to rest in anguish Find peace in time, your peace of mind before you close your eyes I will go gently into the night without remorse plaguing my feeble mind