Standing on the edge of Styx peering into the beyond,
Swimming down river would be irreversible.
With the angels of death taunting you over the edge,
Faint words far behind you cause you to take a look back.
Yearn for loving embraces.
Faint winds carry voices, scents of recollection, glimpses of the future.
A place where the lives you meant to touch,
Never felt the warmth of your presence,
Their fates doomed to be left unfulfilled.
The earth beneath rumbles, hands of the dead reaching.
Glance downward, witness the hollow shells of their skulls.
The dimmed lights of souls in their eyes, growing smaller,
Attempt to take another to briefly brighten their omened flame.
Death is an unsurpassed difficulty.
A journey ended abruptly, far more saddening than one momentarily challenged.
Without past hardships, growth is impossible.
The path we've traveled, a way to evolve the being inside.
You have an army of the heavenly sort,
To shine through the black veil.