Polarity (Nelson)

Dare to think of all as time bombs
Through the gaze of morbid eyes
Brave the dark, and with sight gone
Only now can you see the light
In this crux burdened lifelong:
The polarity of life and death
Flooding dread of the unknown
Drowns a bitter final breath
Misbegotten survival
For existence is terminal
Flesh never could rival
And all are dead on arrival
(Dead on arrival)
Embrace the polarity
Living: The gauntlet tempers the steel
And yet for naught is all prosperity
Dying: Silence shrouds what is real
We shall embrace this polarity
The paradox: living is lethal
We stoke illusions where nothing is certain
The macrocosm's retrieval
Frailty seeks to uplift such burdens
In life, we balance upon needles
Some draw the lines, others toil for clarity
But in death, we'll prove equal
Don't bide time to embrace this polarity
Misbegotten survival
For existence is terminal
Flesh never could rival
And all are dead on arrival
Destiny of deprival
In spite of instinct most primal
Flesh never could rival
And all are dead on arrival
Embrace the polarity
Living: The gauntlet tempers the steel
And yet for naught is all prosperity
Dying: Silence shrouds what is real
We shall embrace this polarity
Breathing: A function pondered vainly
Sows life, yet it's proof of our frailty
Ceasing tends to move one strangely
Shifts their eyes across this duality
Oblivion beckons as Satan to Eve
Our minds are voracious, on darkness they feed
Cognition awaits, eclipsed by our reach
Where sun is the truth we must learn but not teach
Oblivion beckons, Satan to Eve
Our ravenous minds, on darkness they feed
Cognition is lying, just out of reach
Where sky is the truth, deaf to this speech
Embrace the polarity
Through omnipresence, drawing near is fate
So trivial in essence, quests to mitigate the end
Where we distract ourselves through our diligence
Instead to further an ongoing quest for significance
Until the hourglass sands stain with our macabre state
Unconcerned by if we've succeeded to alleviate the end
Let us distract ourselves through our diligence
To find it's outweighed by a looming insignificance in the end
All is outweighed in the end...