The Curtain

Drink to me, my dearest friend

Celebrate now, not the end.

Lift high your glass and smile

Share our past for a while.

Waste not time in search of me

I’m now, where we all will be

Very soon we shall meet again

In this place I am now in

There is more than one reality

A fact you too are soon to see

So dance and laugh and cry

Like me you too will die

Consider what we leave behind

Only a few things can we find

Of any import that will transcend

Our own inevitable earthly end

I know not if I may see

Through the veil t’ween you and me

But if I can one things for certain

I raise my glass beyond the curtain