Examine the tangible the gifts of life The meaningful and meaningless As we learn to love and share laughter And grief in the blink of an eye The tears drip from the cheek and fall to the floor Soundless shapeless as all the candles have been extinguished As the waters freeze over and the ruins become ancient We will wander through our dreams made of time Here, they stand before us the marble pa**ageways that will lead us to life To play a funeral dirge to dance among the ancient fires To cast away the fallen into the arms of the heavens