The Man Who Ate Time

a poem about death and how scary it really is

Welcome one welcome all
leaves turn orange and turn to fall

the world and all its lovely trees
quickly start to crack and freeze
cars slip slide and skeet

causing crashes in the street
dead meat,dead beet

all of us will die
some pray to the sky

some look down to the rocks
some drown themselves in drugs and cocks

we all live our lives the way we think is best
it doesn't really matter one day all of us will rest

six feet in the ground we meet
the man who ate time
and we think of what we could be
and we'd dig and scratch and climb

all for naught of course
actor,waitress,whore,mime
it all comes to its end by the man who ate time

all our hope
inside jokes
love that we shared

it took so long and its all gone
and soon we will forget

the world tries to cling its best
but once you've laid your final rest
memory of you and memory of life
turned into sand by the gods silver knifes

think back on your life and you can see
once a teen
once a child
once a fetus
once just slime
all of it forgotten
taken,by the man who eats time.