Coins Upon the Eyes

Place these coins upon your eyes
 The final payment in your necrotic tithe
 And so the gleam that rendered you blind
 Affords the last entertainment you'll ever buy
 Filthy lucre's gleam - leaves you excoriated at the seams
 The rented corpse you've been, now teems, a necrovore's unburied dream
 Coin of the realm misspent - another grey life, came and went
 Sundered and rent, your carcass spent upon the wheel unbent
 Coins - upon the eyes
 You paid to live, now pay to die
 A lifetime bled out by degrees
 Haemorrhaging figuratively
 Now as you pay the final fee
 It comes to pass quite literally
 Evil's root unquenched - from your cold dead hands your legacy wrenched
 Into the trench to stench along the other dead blood-drenched
 Mortgaged life past due - just as you knew you'd one day rue
 The contract in blood they drew, you signed and what ensued is that they ran you through
 Coins - upon the eyes
 You paid to live, now pay to die
 Now pay to die
 DIE!
 Die - even as you think you live
 Die - with all you have to give
 Die - lifesblood drained as through a sieve
 Die - with all your regrets to forgive - never forgive
 This tenebrous tariff will cost you dear
 In sweat and blood, but please no tears
 Clinking coppers fall upon dead ears
 Overdrawn and overtaxed for years
 Coffin nails are never still - ever more plots we've yet to fill
 Another deposit in the till, gravehills, rising grim and still
 Some say that death is dead - it's all undertaking, too much overhead
 But in sooth I'm in the red, in my deathbed I repose obscenely overfed
 Coins - upon the eyes
 You paid to live, now pay to die