Vigilance Yet lyrics

Standing watch in vigilance

Wounded and in pain

Plagued by age's minions

Awaiting my relief

That never comes

So many I have seen

They come and go

I remain, why so

What mission is left?

What task yet undone?

Limping, deficit, disabled

In body and in mind

Focusing, this sentry

Remains at his post

No relief in sight

Humanity, my keep

A lifetime I should say

In darkness and in light

Still to show their way

So very tired, so tired

Perhaps there is another

Who is learning from birth

Too far away to see now

Another of this earth

Who will take on the cause