I Am
Intro
Verse 1
I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows?
My friends forsake me like a memory lost;
I am the self-consumer of my woes,
They rise and vanish, an oblivious host.
Verse 2
Shadows of life, whose meanings nether knows,
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams,
Where there is neither sense of life nor joys.
And yet I am, and live with shadows tost
Into the nothingness of scorn and noise,
Into the living sea of waking dreams!
Interlude
Verse 3
I long for scenes where man has never trod;
A scene where woman never smiled or wept;
There to abide with my creator, God,
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept.
Outro
Untroubled in the silence of the night...
Sleeping at last...