Asleep inside myself so weary
Craven soul alive to hide
The inner depth comes crawling
Down the ever deep and endless slide
To feel the darkness growing steely.

Resolve to find the greater lie
That is unbounded so they say
And live and fight the deadly tide
Of night and day, side by side
To let it flow and slowly die.

And even though we fade away
And death will take its clammy grasp
And drag you down to whence it came
The mortal coil, the last gasp
The silence dwells another day.