WHAT MEANS ALL THIS

Hippocrates cured many illnesses Then himself Fell sick And died The Chaldaei foretold The deaths of many others In due course Their own hour arrived Alexander, Pompey, Caesar Who utterly destroyed so many cities Cut down so many Tens of thousands of men with no pity Themselves too At last Departed from life Heraclitus often told us That the world would end in fire Yet he was filled with water Smeared with cowshit when he died Lice got Democritus That's how that man departed But it was the human kind of lice That took Socrates And? What means all this? And? What means all this? And? What means all this? And? What means all this? You boarded You set sail You've made the voyage Time to disembark If it's for another life Well there is no want of gods On that side either If to nothingness You no longer have to put up With pain and pleasure And be a slave to the vessel As inferior As that which serves it is superior One is mind and deity The other clay and gore And? What means all this? And? What means all this? And? What means all this? And? What means all this?