Approach the image filled with fear

As the image grows so clear

Future now takes full control

The one whose past you now behold

Touch - the flesh it is so cold

Turn away - you now have been told

Never to return, memories will last

In the future, you'll think about the past

Never to forget, what you have seen



People come to pay respect

Taking pictures of the dead

That is what life comes to be

Once they lived, now they're deceased



Death is oh so strange

The past no one can change

What you can't predict

Is how long you'll exist

Open casket - open casket



Life will never be the same

Death can never be explained

It's their time to go beyond

Empty feeling when they're gone



Never to return, memories will last

In the future, you'll think about the past

Never to forget, what you have seen

What can not be real you now believe