Up high...during the lowest of times...

Upon a cliff

At the edge of sanity

Upon the brim of lunacy

Away from society

Stands a lone figure

Alone...





Where has joy gone

Sadness everywhere

Drowning in toxic smog

Smothered away from sunshine

up on a cliff

Suffering...





There is no help

The sun no longer shines

No hands reach out

Even smiles have faded away

There's no way out

Trapped...





Eyes burnt in darkness

He could not see

The silence deafened

Nor could he breathe

They surrounded him

Choking...





The ground was too far

The skies too high

Nothing within reach

But for the smog

Nowhere but the cliff

Lost...





Too high up

Wrapped in blindness

Stumbling forwards

Only to fall downwards

He had no hope

Crying...





Only one could save him

But he could not see

Would not see

Far too engrossed was he

In what he could feel

Blinded...





There was no more revelry

In fact, there never was

All this time walking

Days he'd spent talking

Nights of constant scouring

Emptiness...





He was beginning to learn

Where he stood

Amid the clouds

Away from the world

How caught up he was

Dreaming...





Memories tied in time

Collared with green history

Printed upon pages yellow

Cringing finally under scrutiny

This was the wage of age

Growing...





Looking to his emptiness

Knowing the scar of years

The way he had found and lost

He knew only one need

Only one object of desire

Escape...





Every step of the journey

Each passing day

Along with the clock's ticking

And the pages flipping

The end comes nearer

Longing...





Isolation brought revelation

Witnessing from a distance

The world left behind

By a single person

On who knew what he wanted

Freedom...





Now at his final chapter

Beginning to see its end

With nothing to see

And no place to land

He could feel it

Mortality...





In the distance

Through the crystal ball

He sought now only one end

Wanted one more purpose

A final act before he left

History...





This was his gift

In a single book

The teachings of his life

For the world to see

A story of a lonely man

Dieing...





The turn of the final page

Final letter of the final word

His biography ended

His whole life told

All the world been read to

Closing...