LIVE FOREVER.

You want to live forever

After the stars have lost their brightness

And the sun turned into a dull flat plate

You want to watch the moon's light go out

And the rivers become parched lands

You want to be remembered

Like the Gaza pyramids

Deeds standing tall

Offsprings surrounding you

Regaling in tales of time past

But today is a battle

Broken bones and torn flesh

An insipid mind in aching distress

Crying for more

Thirsting to be better

Fists pounding on an impregnable wall

The darkness approaches

Your present deeds haunt you

How do you erase

This terrible stain called your past

And walk into a glorious

Unsoiled morning?

You breathe; it is shallow

Sadness engulf you

You search and search for meaning

In an empty universe

You hear the taunts

And the ringing echoes

Still, you want to live forever

And read your suicide note

To generations unborn

The books of the future will tell

How you found meaning

And made something

Out of nothing

©Kelvin Alaneme, 2015.