While the While Is Worthwhile

This little chance I got in life,
Rob me not, for goodness sake,
Let me be wake before I sleep,
Let me dream before I 'wake...
Let me dream away the dreams,
And live the life away...
Like there be not a morrow,
Nor ever was a yesterday!
I wouldn't know, I was not there,
I won't be there, will I know not,
All I know is I live, now, breath,
And now I die and rot.
Oh shame, how cruel the time,
I'm, after all, not worth a dime...
Once the time is gone...
And my life's done.