Like Vultures

I have seen my parents younger

but there’s not long anymore

until they close their eyes

look to the skies

and walk the one-way door

I watch their sun go down each day

and I have been keeping score

of the countless years

just like the tears.

I’ve seen them happier before

The family is here right now

to see their final paces

but it’s a big disguise

it’s in their eyes

and the smiles behind their faces

They’re all wishing time would fly by

and were like it from the start

They would not waste time

if it wasn’t a crime

to stab them through the heart

Within their home is plenty

within the bank is plenty more

for years they had saved

to have the road paved

so their kids would never cry poor

The time has come, their number up

their hearts have been released

it breaks my heart

when a world falls apart

when they think they rest in peace

My family have gone, the race begun

for them there is no peace of mind

until the house is bare

and they’ve taken what’s there

whatever my folks left behind

I will never forget what my father had said

as he whispered to me through the pain:

“I wonder the cost

of no love lost

if there was never any love gained.

You know my good son it’s just not the same

throughout and beyond other cultures.

I can see their disguise

and blood in their eyes

with their mouths dripping like vultures”