Remains To Be Seen

 

You come to me but cannot see
and do not know I’m there.
For now you’re mine and for a time
you’ll stay within my care.
No need to wait I know you’re late
others are drawing your plans.
So near yet so far you aren’t and you are
in skillful and loving hands.
Naked and bare at peace you lie there
regretfully your rest is disturbed.
From vacant glazed eyes that wept mournful sad cries
to lips that won’t part for a word.
I’ll take what God gave a few more things to save
no pain and no loss will you feel.
With out and with in I caress cold lifeless skin
your secrets I dare not reveal.
Life essence replaced fulfilled dark empty space
you’re finished before I’ve begun.
May the tale be retold of a profession so old
it eclipses the oldest one.
In paradise or hell of this I can’t tell
the future is everyone’s end.
Loathed, shunned and feared when I appear
but the day draws when we’re closer than friends.