Catching The Bullet

A last act of compassion
As this old world disappears
A message to a loved one
A warning to colleagues or peers
Standing perhaps at the end of the bed
Or floating through your dreams
It's true I will be long departed
Before you decipher what it means

Let me go now my friend
Let me go
There are still so many things
I would like you to know
There's no pain now my friend
There's no pain
Be sure we will meet again

A last act of kindness and decency now
As this world disappears
May get lost in a valley of sorrow or drowned in a ocean of tears
A visit like this may be too much for sanity's grasp
The need to deny
But the chance I can feel is too tempting to miss
And I know I must try

Time to go now my friend
Time to be gone
Thanks for being there
Being there for so long
I am safe now my friend
I am safe
Be sure we'll meet again

This is me signing off
This is me signing out

This is me signing off
This is me signing out

Just when you thought I was gone
And the trick was complete
I return to bring this curtain down
As the audience will rise as one
To their feet