So this is how it ends,
Lost and cloaked by shadows, staring out through a glassy mist,
Moments of clarity, trickling mem'ries that blessed compassion sends,
Stumbling through life's fragmented mimicry, reflections in that precious gist.

So this is how it ends,
Wand'ring naked in this unusual place,
Wond'ring, is this what fruitful destiny rends?
Glissade down that rocky path, rememb'ring love's familiar face.

So this is how it ends,
Lifetimes swimming upstream, against a ripping tide of years,
Gather courage, valiant ho! Try not to flounder, try ne'er to offend,
Crossing a great divide, eyes fill with tears, oh! past sorrows, so many fears.

So this is how it ends,
Just one more changing season, too fresh for me,
Smiling, I salute life, "Some other time then!",
Spoken words, 'tween love and me.

So this is how it ends,
Walking lone, stepping into coal dark night,
Blinded by my journey, such heart stopping trends,
Rise up! Prizing into heaven's eternal light.

So this is how it ends,
Mem'ries hang in a rainbow sky, stumble from nothing into everything,
Thus a juncture, time reacts to life, simply stretched, spells bend,
Kissing moments of being, embracing starry heaven as my soul sings.

So this is how it ends,
Lying wrapped and bound, still and dead upon my funeral pyre,
Conflagration into ash, leaping flames that lick the corpse, so send,
Eternal souls, rise in faith above a sombre sky, honour this razing gyre.

So this is how it ends,
Freed silence, bleed from this temporal place, waking another universe,
Slipping from darkness into light, as  goodly light surely intends,
Speed well my friend! 'cross mysterious time, a trip so benevolently terse.

So this is how it ends,
Waiting for absolution, dressed in that nighttime mist,
Departing from epic into epoch, as fateful eternity lends,
Light and hope retaking, remarking in psalm on love and life's vital tryst.

So this is how it ends,
All those things, accomplished well, an adventurous lifetime,
Bright shining successes! Those abject failures, thus destiny descends,
Placid night ascends, twinkles 'neath my starlit feet, shutting dim eyes one last time.