Eternity
A second seems to last much longer
A second seems to last much longer
When you live forever.
An eternity filled with love
Seems a distant dream for me.
What I fear I face instead
Is an eternity of what might have been.
Everything I want and need in life
Lies just beyond my reach.
I want what I cannot have.
I need what cannot be given.
I curse my immortality.
Your lifetime will hardly register
On this never ending path I walk,
Yet you are why I keep going.
I cannot bear to think
Of my empty life decades, centuries
After you have left this earth.
I want you by my side forever.
The answer seems easy.
I could help you join my long, long walk.
But should I give to you the gift
I was given but didn't want?
If I cannot have you by my side
Then I would wish for eternity to end.
If you were with me, an eternity
Would be nowhere near long enough.
