To Live To Die
The first day on the job
The cards tell me
To finish a dying man
Crying on his knees
I find his exact location
And arrive to see family
Gathered around his body
Everybody cries profusely
I scan the body lying there
My sources come to report
A father of two, dying of cancer
No mother was present to support
My heart cries a little
As I hold my scythe
Over the manโs limp body
I check my list of tasks to do
And read all of the names
Of people of ages old and young
Who would breathe their last breath today
A girl has leukaemia
A mother lost her child
A father with cancer
And a boy who wants to die
I canโt be the one to end these lives
That havenโt even been lived out fully
The boy, the mother, the father and the girl
Will all live long, blissfully
As for my job, Iโve now lost
After making the right decision
We must all die someday, somehow
But sometimes weโve just got to keep living