1. The light you see is but a flashing veil
Why then this striving for the unreal?

2. It shines as though the days shine for a while
Then mortality makes all things fail

3. Death broke us though we schemed and toiled
And strove with all our skills and guile

4. Their words delight my hearing, though
Grey death with purpling rivers soils

5. Gone are the hands of hope from pledge and vow
I tax them truly with betrayal

6. The walls left nothing I hold dear
No loved one comes with sweet arrival