As the Bell Tolls

Can you hear it?  The endless ringing as time continually slips from our hands?  What will happen when our hands are cold and lifeless?  Will we look back on our lives with an air of satisfaction or a sigh of disappointment?  Did we strive to live life to the fullest?  Taking chances no one else would take, making memories that no one else would make?  I want to say that I pushed the boundaries, living life the way I wanted.  I want to come so close to death that I can touch his ashen face, and pull back before he can grab onto me.  In this there is excitement, in this there is thrill.  I don't wanna be just a dead man walking.