We went to see you at the hospital In your bed you were already skeletal It was a matter of time before you died Cancer was eating you from inside So we decided to take you with us So you could at least spend your last minutes Away from these strangers in the cold We can’t leave a dog on the threshold
When your pain was unbearable Like molten lead poured your innards You took morphine to get some relief Instantly falling in a coma like sleep And I often wondered where you where then In a no man’s land? Not far from heaven In a color dream where you could screw All these women who didn’t want you?
You where there, death without poetry Grotesque and scandalous nudity I wanted to weep but tears didn’t come My heart stood still like a frozen sun I could only stare at your open eyes Your mouth tensed with a silent cry Your shoulder blades under the skin Protruding like two shrivelled wings
In the knight you knocked on oblivion’s door I found you stiff on the bathroom floor In a ring of clotted blood A fist in the face, my first cadaver So different from the other corpses I’ve seen Liars in black suit, masquerade! Perfectly prepared for the human parade A fake prayer in the funeral comedy
You where there, death without poetry Grotesque and scandalous nudity I wanted to weep but tears didn’t come My heart stood still like a frozen sun I could only stare at your open eyes Your mouth tensed with a silent cry Your shoulder blades under the skin Protruding like two shrivelled wings