Onto this shadow dot we're cast
On universe's finite speck of dust
To wake and sleep while all is passed
To give and grasp, to love and lust

To spend our time in new found joy
Or spend it all in baseless fear
Accepting life's amusing ploy
Or fighting all that's gone or here

Keeping time with the common beat
Join the sing along with the hummer
Or march through life on silent feet
List'ning for a different drummer

'Tis into riches some are born
And others into sorrow's plight
Where fortune falls upon the morn'
Or in the depths of pauper's night

Where matters not in light of life
Only if we spend in growing
The time we spend in joy or strife
For the making of our knowing

In growing hours as children play
To waste away the childhood time
In frolic through a sunlit day
They are acting out a pantomime

Out on the playground structures set
They're idle in the sunset's glow
O'er the sagging tennis court net
Only the empty fading shadows flow

Where we were with a future unknown
Thoughts of what we'll do tomorrow
What will grow from seeds we've sown
And what will come of dreams we borrow

As we look at daylights morning ebb
Or at the bright and sunny afternoon
The dew drop on a spiders web
mocks the light of the midnight moon

There's confusion in the lonely why
Why we be left only to ourself
Of time and love that passed us by
Like an untouched book on the shelf

How do we truly face the ugly time
With Gallant ease or not at all
With the bitter taste of the lime
Or softness like the leaves that fall

And how do we face our fearsome battles
All, with our unending courage or
With hate, fear and saber rattles
And what end have we fought them for.