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The Price of Immortality

by Bruce Alan Humphrey — Read all 55 poems by Bruce Alan Humphrey

I want to live forever.

Winner of the 2009 February contest at artistic pursuit.org

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

I want to live forever.

I never want to die.

I want to feel and see everything, to be everything.

I am afraid to die.

 

The process is done.

Done secretly, against my wife's wishes, I am now immortal.

Euphoric is weak for an explanation, humbling insignificant.

My wife and children have left me, but I am still alive.

 

I have been in several test accidents and survived.

Nothing can touch me.

I can do anything, bad.

Laws of Man and God do not apply to me.

 

Death and destruction I have left in my wake.

Secretly starting wars, plagues, and famine I watch millions.

I still survive. The smile on my face aches.

I feel glorious.

 

Years creep along. I have lost track of time.

All I have known, all I have needed, is gone.

The world is cold and dark. Snow falls constantly.

Winds blow unmercifully, unceasing.

 

My smile dissolved centuries ago replaced by one of indifference.

I do not care as I trudge through the deep snow.

I do not feel the cold; its stinging bite has no teeth.

I do not want to feel anymore.

 

The sun, though high overhead, is stunted.

Dull it is, its life-giving warmth long since faded.

Mankind has long since gone.

I am alone on my world, my world of loneliness.

 

It is my perfect barren world.

Nothing changes.

Nothing moves but the snow and the relentless bitter wind.

Images of my wife and children have long since faded.

 

There is nothing in the future.

The past distant beyond my now feeble imagination.

I want to die.

Will I die? Help me, God.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Reviewed by Swan Son
Reviewed on February 22, 2009
A very moving and scary poem ... what would it be like to live forever when all around you has gone? Living to a ripe old age has sweetness but it is also tainted with sorrow. I would not wish to live forever. Susan Williams

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on April 26, 2008
I sometimes think I could live like that, totally apart & alone, but then think better of it...seems it would be a hard write to even imagine...Peace, Ed & Rufuz

Reviewed on February 17, 2007
This is a Keeper!
My heart goes out to you!
YOur strenth will hold you up!
I feel such longing in this!
Thank you for sharing your heart!

YOur books sound interesting too~
YOur chosen words amaze and stun me!
Mighty pen you have, GREAT WRite!

WArmly, WArrior Sheee
Have Faith, nomatter what...

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on February 9, 2007
A compelling insight into a "lonely" soul completely alone. Interesting perspective, Bruce. Thanks for sharing. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Larry Lounsbury
Reviewed on February 7, 2007
A mythological look at a fallen one. Great poem


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