Final Foe lyrics

They come to me, their pleas

Caked in dry and dirty blood

Sometimes pulsing pooling

Their living libations

Sacrificed to god of war

Trickling and ticking time

And now facing final foe

Ashen grey they grow

Listless and eyes lusterless

Gasping hand and cloak

As if to cheat their feeble fate

Cries for mom and mercy

No glorious martyrdom

No hymn, no commendation

Gasping rattles turn silent

Humility my lone companion

Soiled hands in sudden death

Thoughts yet racing

Did I fail them in living?

Did they fail me in dying?

A mortal man bewildered

Cast adrift, alone

Lost amid a boundless sea

Bobbing to and froe endlessly

Surrounded by life giving waters

Unable to partake, not a drop

That unquenchable thirst

They have had their fill

The dead know no pain

Only the living stay to suffer

Still surviving to serve keeps me

Amid the tiny hours of morn

A quiet world, too late

It is a refuge and arena

Between memory and thought

Here, there is the court

Where judge and jury rule

But verdict is of self

Come into a mirror's view

In the day's dawning light

Showing mortal defects

Scars and wrinkled brow

What time has reckoned

In twilight's imminent light

Befallen by all the losses

After the giving is all gone

And the only reward left

Is a long awaited slumber

So silent and serene