Deathbed

Funny, it's stopped hurting
I'm drifting on a dark sea
Floating. Am I sleeping?
Are these memories or dreams?

There's the old house...and my parents.
And my best friend as a kid.
Sunlight slanting through the bushes.
People called us and we hid.

Then came school--a constant battle
with the pretty and the nice.
They were like a herd of cattle.
I was like a block of ice.

Finally sex and love and heartbreak.
Big ideas full of smoke.
Weary years of work and worry.
Getting older. Losing hope.

Lots of things that seemed important
never mattered, in the end.
Just some private, holy moments
and the love we had, my friend.

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