Life's Lichened Ledgers lyrics

Over forty years

Crumbling, fading epitaphs

Sentiments erasing away

More of them now

Some new, some very old

All bound to history's cycle

Dissolving, the rains of time

I too walk dizzily

A cane props the tour

No one sure-footed

No more clear-minded

Culmination of years ago

Limiting those future

The price of remembering

So many now interred

To them that are gone

All they thought so bold

Dire, stressful, unrelenting

Now gone, now forgotten

Lost in a world departed

Nameless and faceless

Given to anonymity

To the intangibles

Timeless abstraction

Unlike the concrete

Deteriorated in brief spance

It's real is beckoning

A silent stirring

Felt within, known there

Reality has a cold stare

Stern and unyielding

As the days pass

It bids a comforting adieu

Certain and sure

To reclaim a debt owed...

Amidst life's lichened ledgers