All Shrouded in mystery your bed lies
The walls are hung in tapestries
With peace you take your sleep
My heart is far away from here
Lost in Christmases from long ago
And travels that took me to distant places
Lost in cities that I used to know
And people who are no longer with me
Lost in people who have recently died
And how my heart is sore and heavy
I seem to remain in the past
While the rest of the world is moving on
I hope to remain forever lost
And nod my head to sleep with resign
There is no room in my heart for another
And so my life seems kind of pointless
Old age they say is much like this
It seems to have found me at 32
Much has gone past and the world is old
Mewing herself to sleep over last night's dinner
If there is hope it is in another
My heart is buried beneath the clay
My love is gone so what care I
If the drifting breeze is drifting away
What care I if hope is dim now
If all the world iis shrouded in dusk
The mist is cold and wet here
Alas there is no sunshine in my heart
I keep the vigil of one who is mourning
The grief of one who has lost much
The earth groans painfully all around me
I hear its sadness and I also feel it
Feel sad for that which has gone by
And that which left me childless
For that which says I am a child
No child am I, but growing older
It is with shame that I hang my head
With shame that I carry onward
An adult child is a thing with no hope
A thing that will never get better
A thing that will never live to taste freedom
And a thing that is headed for death
No rising sun on this sad figure
There is only the promised land
For an adult child the future is dark
There are no lights to light their way
They are being killed in a rigid way
It is death that courts them only
And in the parents that feed on this
Their satiation is the child's undoing
This child can never feel happiness
Instead it must feel pain
There is no disease but the lack of hope
For them the art of sadness
This law should be abolished and
There's death lying heavy in its wake
In Jesus' Name,
Amen