Life Could Flash Before Your Eyes

Life's a play, the world's a stage

All actors in the script we write

In a moment death could take you

Life could flash before your eyes

Spark of life ignite conception

Naked from the womb we fair

Cut the cord, inflict the spanking

Gasp for our first breath of air

Feeding from the breast of instinct

Suckling the social mirror

Weaned and walking, soon we're talking

Mimic all you see and hear

Play the game, we climb the ladder

Learning from the book of rules

Off to school to take our places

Make the grade or made a fool

Don the strength of adolescence

New sensations fan the fire

Social mores will pose the question

Feed the flame, or quench desire

In the prime of life

We taste the fruits from the sweat of our brow

Faced with passing time we waste

Will haunt us in our final hour

Feel the stillness of our autumn

Friends as leaves are passing on

Are the memories all forgotten

When the final curtains drawn

In the flux of death awaken

Welcome to the other side

Reacquaint with fellows taken

Gained to prize eternal life