One day I will fade From the annals of time Along with conceptions Of my human mind Words that then gave them life Be of speech or of pen Will rust and dissolve In the reigning of men And moons waning then On the powers that be Will only sunrise For the living to see No sad elegy From the melting ice faces That filled up my oceans With dark, empty spaces My desert's oasis Last puddle runs dry The gardens I've tended Will wither and die No bluer the sky No willows will weep No creatures will mourn Over my ever-sleep As forever must keep Spinning time in its hands The valley still kneels And the mountain still stands Overlooking the lands That I flowed through in peace Unperturbed by the force Of my river's release As the winds of change cease To carry my name Upon phoenix wings That ignited my flame When I felt earth reclaim All that I held dear And saw no kingdom comes That outshine the one here No question mark fear Just my last exclamation This journey concludes In the truth's punctuation