I used to think the swans would live
Until the world no longer spun.
And that they could live forever and a day
And bask out in the sun.
Even the ugly duckling; who soon learnt his fate,
Doesn't have an end or a sell-by date.
Now, as we know, things come and go.
And beauty fades and falls.
But I used to believe that swans could go
And out live us all.
I see white feathers, of purity and of clean.
And I watch them move so graceful and ever so serene.
The swans, they dance and glide across the lake's wide top.
And will always do so, even when my heart stops.
Where do swans go to die?
I hear my teacher ask.
I don't really know, I replied.
I never thought to ask.
But I wish to see a dead one, just to believe that it can be so.
But I don't think I could cope with that, if one died near me though.
Swans can't die, I tell myself as I sit here by the lake...
The lake that holds no movement
For all the swans have gone.
But I do not understand,
What in their life went wrong.
Where do swans go to die?
A better place, I bet.
But in the next life, with those swans,
How much better could it get?