Oh Death

Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?
 Mother came unto my bed
 Placed a towel upon my head
 Head is warm, my feet are cold
 Death is moving upon my soul
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year.
 Oh, Death, how you're treating me
 You close my eyes so I can't see
 Hurting my body, you make me cold
 You run my life right out of my soul
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?
 Oh, the young, the rich, the poor
 Makes no difference who you are
 No wealth, no land
 No silver, no gold
 Nothing satisfies but your soul
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?
 And no, Death, keep your hands off my chest
 I keep waiting for one final breath
 I know I may not pass this test
 but oh, Death
 Oh, Death, oh, Death
 Death, Death
 Oh, Death, I'll raise my eyes to the sky
 Give me great feathered wings to fly
 But please, now is not my time to die
 So, oh, Death
 Oh, Death, oh, Death
 Death, Death
 I've been speaking with the dead
 Removed from my physical proximity
 But riling through my lungs, oxygen
 Regimented pain, reminding me of purpose
 As I hurl myself
 Unflinching, unblinking
 into the glow of luminescent tomorrows
 Without you, I have been speaking with the dead
 She was reluctant to reveal my amputated dreams
 But keeps me in her good graces
 'Cause I love her
 I have to tell her
 There are those who would defame you
 Sprinkling disreputable memories in the well water of your goodness
 Those discontents roaming aimlessly
 Shouting voices unheard
 She speaks to me in dreams
 Her melancholic whispers prevent my fevered reconsiderations
 She knows
 She showed me my future, became my past
 That seemed like the same breath
 In my rememberance
 I explode backwards
 My rarely punculated heartbeat
 Runs on setencing me daily again to begin without her
 Those lingering pomegranate sunsets ready me for her meticulous inspection
 We see the same stars
 And I will continue building this legacy we started together
 Grateful that she armed me with conviction in my condemnation
 Will not falter in her absense
 I will luminate every horizon revealed to me
 'Cause I'm not angry
 My insomniatic refusals to continue conversations we started
 When she was in the flesh no longer
 Called from my ranker
 Though, there are days that her presence is skin I've never shed
 There are days when the rustling of leaves resembles her laughter and I spin on my heels
 Seeking her face in a box of dead trees
 There are days when I miss her like teeth
 But I promise, I'm not angry anymore
 Because I know she would've given her life to be here
 and I am here
 Eagerly awaiting the blanket of stars to cover me so that when slumber finally takes me
 She and I, we will continue this conversation
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?
 Oh, Death
 Oh, Death
 Won't you spare me over for another year?