There will come a day a day most people dread when my ears will be stone deaf to bird song <br />When nothingness and i will be the same and with the earth of Nature I'll belong <br />And enemies and friends are of the same i will not know if from me they are far or near <br />Beyond all feelings lifeless as a stone without any sense of bravery or fear, <br />Without the senses living life can bring without the feelings of joy or unhappiness <br />Death brings an end to laughter and to tears and an end to feelings of elation and stress <br />There will come a time when i will be no more and from me that cannot be far away <br />I am not that far from my use by date and one might say I've known a better day <br />All things that breathe the air of life must die and what happens after that then who can tell <br />Though many are convinced the soul lives on for to dwell forever in a heaven or a hell <br />No less a mortal than the sheep or cow no less a mortal than the deer or roo <br />We are not very long lived after all not longer lived than the long lived cockatoo <br />There will come a time when we will be no more but it will not matter to us when the life from us has gone <br />For we will be as dead as the lifeless stone and without us life it surely will go on.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-will-come-a-time/
