Going Naked Into The Dark Night Poem by James McLain

From where we came, we know not,
Going naked Into the dark night!
Like a man without air, without cloud's
In the sky, unseen when death comes but it's there.

There are now but a few numbered day's,
A head full of hair now it's gone,
While other's have more hair than their day's, day's
That will turn into night.
Night's that are dark, night's without light, light
That once burned bright in the breast.

Once when a child was a fool, yet the fool
Now a man having long life, knows the price for their
Life is the dark,
Death can now knock on each door, good or bad.
Aware in the mind such will know, knowledge for the king
Knowledge to the poor, the night is as long as before.

Gravely I'll, sound in mind, each gives way to the night
It will be long,
Struggling for breath afraid of the dark, knowing that life
Soon is gone.
To die in the light with eye's closed.
All go naked, naked as when born, naked in the knowledge
Of death.



Copyright © James McLain | Year Posted 2018