And So It Goes

And you know things And now I do too Like the time when And the day that We have come so far And held hands all the way To my empty palm Comfort knows not And then there’s the rest Wound up to tick Who shall be there When the time comes When the time comes We will seek the same As those who did before Struggle unlike none other Fruitless outcome Is destiny learned Along the way And so it goes And so it goes And so it goes The rhythm and the time A hole not to be fulfilled A debt never to be repaid Choices calculated Lives left to bear And to whom do we look When one’s absence Is to blame Until then The leaves will change The sun will rise And the ticking And the ticking And the ticking 17 May 2006