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And when I am old and frail

I request no ceremony or burial

Lay me in a bed of flowers

My eyes captured by the stars beyond the canopy

My last escatasy

A wind from unknown place carries me afar

And blades of grass caress my face

And waters dance in vermillion sun

I ride into the malestrom

Where thunder rolls across black sky

The rigging moans and the sails cry

"Lead my soul to calmer billows"

Soon I become one beneath the sun

And all who dwell within its light

For this is the end of my plight

May my death bring life to all around

And now I sail on seas on grey

Oh, Northern Star guide my way

Till we sink beneath the waves and so dream of endless days

On white shores I lay strewn about the sand

My bones bleached by sun and time

My empty eyes watching the tide rise and fall as heaving heart

I ride into the malestrom

Where thunder rolls across black sky

The rigging moans and the sails cry

"Lead my soul to calmer billows"

Soon I become one beneath the sun

And all who dwell within its light

For this is the end of my plight

May my death bring life to all around

Allow me to decay amongst leaves and stones

Offer the elements my flesh to fray and the ravens to cleanse my bones

May passing travelers on their way cross upon my wilted frame

And ask who is this who so decays and to this forest bound, his emerald tomb?

Approaching me where I lie, a beast examines who with a cry laments my parting

His master calls and on they go

Thus ends my life

Thus ends my tale

But feel no need to cry

Hold not a candle to my memory

For you know I had no place to call my home

Optic voids sparkle in ardor

I surrender to this pain, I won't protest

I will wear your eclipse as a halo.