My Last Mile

Carry me softly,
Carry me fast.
Take me home to night at last.
Into the unknown, dark and deep.
Away from promises I didn’t keep.


Come silently,
Come while am awake.
Show me my friend your naked face.
Before you take me to a place unknown,
As I leave the shores of a place called home.

And I have lived.
I have lived it through.
To my old eyes now,
The world aint new.
I know these faces, I know these eyes,
And I can tell tears from fake smiles.
I’m old school now, I know how it’s done.
I knew I missed the starting gun.
Its been too hard, its been a while,
Still, Head high, I walk my last mile