Soon to be gone,
oh, how fast time goes,
when life is in the balance,
and the world whirls around you with so much to do,
and when all about you is wrong,
and when there is so much pain and hurt,
there is little hope,
for in the blackest of days,
you know it will not be long,
when life is extinguished,
and when life is gone,
and though you try to cope,
death is the final word that will affect you,
and your family for years to come,
and oh, what a sudden surprise,
filled with such viciousness that cuts you like a knife,
a surprise that savages your emotions,
leaving a wife and children without a husband,
and without a father,
and a husband and children, without a mother and a wife,
and oh, what a bitter time is the ending of a life,
for tears well up, and in their fall,
so, does the reflection of their loved one bite,
dissipating quickly,
for tears are so short lived,
tears over the sudden disease that has arrived,
a disease that smashes the world into pieces,
a disease that destroys all happiness,
and that destroys peace of mind,
and oh, what bitterness is an early death,
an early death in the history of our times.