Grim Reaper

So tell me, Grim Reaper
Who will be leaving today?
Why is it that you only live
To take other’s lives away?
So Grim Reaper, if I may ask?
Does your empty soul not have a heart?
What made you take the grim task
Of taking man’s life apart?

It was not my choice to bring death
Nor was it mankind’s
Death was no one’s choice
So here’s something to keep in mind
Why does man fear death that much?
That man tries to escape it all
Doesn’t man know that they do not control
How and when one’s life will fall

So tell me, Grim Reaper
If it was not you who chose to kill
Why do continue to reap?
Is it not your own bloodlust you are trying to fulfill?
Were you born with that one path
That you cannot discontinue your accursed job?
Is murder your way of displacing your wrath?
Why is it that you forever continue to rob?

Hear me when I say I am no thief
Because life was never man’s to begin with
Why is man so arrogant to stay with that belief?
Those stubborn fools, to hell they will writhe!
It is no secret that I live to take
But not for my personal bloodlust
That thought was man’s big mistake
Death is imminent, you will all turn back to dust!

So tell me, Grim Reaper
How do you know whose soul to collect?
Are you that wise to decide who dies?
What kind of people do you select?
Do you not know that every man will be missed?
That you’ve brought sorrow not just to him?
That even if a man is willing, his family may resist?
That someone else values the life you trim?

I am no fool, and I am not blind
No man can ever choose his time
To the laws of life and death they are confined
When the end comes, to the stairway they shall climb
I am the gateway to judgment, there is no escape
I am just here to continue your plot
From your past sins your next life will shape
To heaven if you are worthy, to hell if you are not

So tell me, Grim Reaper
Who will be leaving today?

That is why I’m here
Your soul you must pay