Time's Up Poem by Clyde King

Time is all I've got now
I don't have you anymore
I will keep on loving you
Until they drop the floor

I can see your lovely face
Then I ask the question why
Did I end up in this place
Where I can't see the sky

Time is all I've got now
I don't have you anymore
I will keep on loving you
Until they drop the floor

When you came to see me
I felt guilty and ashamed
When the jury found me guilty
It was others that I blamed

I know now that I'm guilty
I'll die here in this hole
Only death can free me
O God save my soul

The choices that I made
Were only mine alone
The price that I must pay
O God let death atone

Time is all I've got now
I don't have you anymore
I will keep on loving you
Until they drop the floor

They've taken my last freedom
I hold fast to this hope
Soon I will beat them
When I'm hangin' on this rope

Don't cry for me honey
God knows I've had my fun
I sold my soul for money
When I picked up that gun

You can live in the past
Or get on with your life
Our love went by too fast
Thank God you were my wife

Please forget me honey
I caused you only pain
This will soon be over
When the blackness hits my brain

Time is all I've got now
I can't hold you anymore

June 2017