On We Go

On We Go

All the lights of…every life of…every joy and despair

Of the strangers, of the faces – of the people everywhere

Did you ever stop to wonder - where they even go?

Into the ether, passing by unknown

On, we go on….Sparks turning into flame

On, we go on – then ashes are all that remain

From the morning…to the evening…to the deep of the night

The living the dying is all without respite

To the end of never – nothing lasts forever – what then of the soul?

Endlessly in purgatory if heaven's overthrown?

On, we go on… Sparks turning into flame

On, we go on – asking over and over again

If I want nothing

And nothing wants me

If I've nothing on my mind

Would I be free of the vagary

Of the cruel and the kind?

On, we go on – Sparks turning into flame

On, we go on – changing, staying the same