• You were there the day the world ended,
    Standing beside me, silent and splendid.
    You were there the day the old gods died,
    There to grieve with me, to tell me don’t cry.
    You were there the day the stories failed,
    To smile and laugh as away your dreams sailed.
    You were there the day the system crashed,
    Picking up pieces of old data smashed.
    You were there the day the blue-green seas boiled,
    Sitting serenely as around you waves roiled.
    You were there the day fires burned,
    Setting back rights wrongly end-over turned.
    But you weren’t there the day I did die.
    And now I’m gone, having never said goodbye.