Requiem For A Wise Man

It’s the end of a long quest, a real new beginning
Renouncing forever the futile search for meaning
Renouncing forever the futile search for pleasure
To search on far horizons for life’s real, deepest measure.

Adieu to you all! Your Sage has gone on far ahead!
In your ignorance you struggle; you’ll struggle till you’re dead.

Bewildered by your questions, dismayed by your ideas
Felled by your vain certainties and staggered by your tears
He listened to you weeping the existential scream
But in all your futile fighting, what do you really mean?

Adieu to you all! Your Sage has gone on far ahead!
In your ignorance you struggle; you’ll struggle till you’re dead.

On him fall the tears of Heaven
On him and on the Earth around
Let your tears pass from misery to action
Let none forget his tears
That in his life fell to the ground.

Adieu to you all! Your Sage has gone on far ahead
In your ignorance you struggle; you’ll struggle till you’re dead.

Of him there will remain a living memory
What will we all make of His dark history?