By Rich Harris
I hid a little longer, I was waiting
I turned the lights down low and drew the blind
If Death had picked tonight to do my fate in
Then I really had to give It a hard time
I slept a while, I woke and then I shivered
Waiting for some end to come my way
I would take everything that Death delivered
But by my rules; it was my game It must play
Weeks went by and still It couldn’t find me
Could It really take this long to seek me out?
I thought I heard Death creeping up behind me
Hallucinations; well they wouldn’t rush me out
Cheating Death seemed something I excelled at
I could lie here all my days and not be found
Quiet like a rotting corpse inside his coffin
Buried six feet down into the very ground
And as I kept myself alive and willing
While Death rampaged on the world, taking their lives
Asphyxiating, sick disease or merely killing
I thanked God that I was able to survive
When the quiet fell around me; it had finished
I stepped out into the nightly winter chill
There was nothing left at all; all diminished
Solitary was I now, the world was still.
I had cheated Death, It hadn’t even found me
Sinking to my knees and lifting up my head
With all my family and friends no more around me
I prayed that Death would come again and leave me dead.
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