Life Substance #39 - The "Temporal"

[Intro] [Verse 1] Look at the leaf falling down from the tree, It has a short season, just like the body holding me. It occupies a single space, a moment in the light, Before it gently bows its head and yields into the night. Everything created has a clock ticking inside, A rhythm of the mortal world where passing shadows hide. [Chorus] This is the temporal, the fleeting and the frail, A fragile little vessel with a temporary sail. The something that is bound to one place, to one year, A beautiful illusion that will age and disappear. Substance thirty-nine is the sand inside the glass, Teaching the eternal how to watch the moments pass. [Verse 2] I look at my hands and the lines on my skin, A map of the coordinates this localized vessel has been. It cannot be everywhere, it cannot just stand still, It moves through the dimensions by the pushing of the will. A spark in the material world, a localized design, Leaving just a footprint on the dusty road of time. [Chorus] This is the temporal, the fleeting and the frail, A fragile little vessel with a temporary sail. The something that is bound to one place, to one year, A beautiful illusion that will age and disappear. Substance thirty-nine is the sand inside the glass, Teaching the eternal how to watch the moments pass. [Bridge] Without the fading blossom, we wouldn't know the spring. Without the final curtain, the choir couldn't sing. The boundaries of matter, the heavy weight of time, Are just the instruments we play to make the music rhyme. [Final Chorus] This is the temporal, the fleeting and the frail, A fragile little vessel with a temporary sail. The something that is bound to one place, to one year, A beautiful illusion that will age and disappear. Substance thirty-nine is the sand inside the glass, Teaching the eternal how to watch the moments pass. [Outro] Watch the moments pass... Bound to the earth. Bound to the hour. The beauty of the fading flower. [End]