I am stripped bare
Of clothes
Of flesh
Of bones
Of blood
Of mind
Of heart
I am less than nothing
No more than mist
Whimpering in the wind
A child afraid of the unknown
Of the things that say goodbye
In this life
In the dark
And in the light of day
And what is time
To the dead
To the living
To the loved
To the lonely
Where did yesterday go
While I was looking so forward
  to tomorrow
   and tomorrow
     and tomorrow
Did I forget something today
What is it I am looking for
Staring off into the emptiness
Into the cold indigo face of midnight
Into the fleeting moments of eternity
Trapped in the burning stars
That play hopscotch
On the cosmic blueprints
Drawn out by the children
Of the time before
Before the gods came
And robbed them of their innocence
And stripped them bare
Of their clothes
Of their flesh
Of their bones
Of their blood
Of their minds
Of their hearts
And what did these gods do
With all that they stole
Did they find what they
  were looking for
Did they find dreams
Swirling and encased in marbles
Clouds made of cotton candy
Dinosaurs that roared and danced
Was it worth the death of innocence
Did they pause to regret
Did they pour it all back
Into the universe
And beg themselves
For forgiveness
Did they cry
Until they became nothing more
Than mist whimpering in the wind
A dream of death
Cold and tired
Of her endless reaping of souls
Begging an empty sky
To release herself
From her soft black velvet robes
That stretched and swayed
Beyond the infinite horizon
To feel her own cold lips
Pressed warmly to her brow
And blaze in a grand final flash
Into nothingness
And in this dream
Did these gods
Find themselves
Stripped bare
Of clothes
Of flesh
Of bones
Of blood
Of mind
Of heart
Where they became
Less than nothing
And there in the nothing
Will I find what time is
To the lonely
To the loved
To the living
To the dead
Will I learn from the dead
Will I dance with the living
Will I find beauty in the loved
Will I give comfort to the lonely
Will I strip myself bare
Of my clothes
My flesh
My bones
My blood
My mind
My heart
And find that nothing
Is everything
That is beautiful
About being
A child whimpering
And afraid
Of all the things
That one day
Have to say
Goodbye