Ashes

Alone we come in this world
and alone we have to depart
Alone we walk the earth awhile
and alone we sleep in the grave.
Like puppets in a puppeteer's show
we have to play our parts
And when the clock ticks twelve
all people have to part.
No bond is stable in this world
no future bright as sun.
From ashes and dust we have been borne
and to ashes we shall return.