Nothing

Nothing - - - - - - To think of time In retrospection Rolling down In grandeur lone Toward where unknown No end and no beginning Yet it flows on and on To think of today And when the day is done In the following day There shall be no today For today is yesterday's tomorrow Tomorrow is yesterday's today Yet we see ages well past And staring at us as curious as ever Life has a beginning Life has an end Time planted the seed And see ends on different sides With your birth Comes happiness And with your death Shall come sadness Have you ever guessed? We would not continue for ever The future would be nothing to us This joy and sorrow This wealth and health Dear to us everything Yet they are nothing We strive and we gain We strive and we fail In the end we die Leaving behind everything Yet taking with us nothing From anger and pride, From pain and suffering What will we gain Perhaps nothing If to-day is nothing If past is nothing If future is nothing They are just as surely nothing