Legacy

As the sun rises and falls
 And constellations crawl across dark skies
 Our time here grows ever shorter
 And the silence of the void beckons us all
 We are given just one life
 And each day our fate is left in our hands
 Choosing whether to build or to destroy
 As the tides of time crawl across the sands
 With each moon that passes
 A life drifts away
 With each moon that passes
 Souls slowly decay
 We may not pass into legend
 But we will be noted for our deeds
 Shadows of today cast into eternity
 And our abstract marks on the world
 Shall become our legacy
 The changes that we wrought
 Shall live on forever
 Monuments to dreams of the dead
 And when we return to the earth
 And leave life to others
 Our spirit remains and endures