A Marvelous Thing

I have lived for sixty five years in time quite a span And if living in ten years from now i will be an old man And though i have lost all of the youthful elan I want to live on for as long as i can Live since death it is forever and though my best days long gone For as long as i can live i will try to live on Since any of the deceased have not come back to tell Us of a life after Earthly death or of a heaven or a hell Of the praises of a noble death the balladeer may sing But the great gift of life is a marvelous thing The reaper of lives claims the old and the young But the dead never hear when their praises are sung The Goddess of Nature the only god of which i do know And my wonderment of her only seems to grow And i hope to live for as long as i can since my soul may not fly To god's supposed heavenly kingdom somewhere beyond the sky.