Immortality

Would I choose Immortality?

To never be able to die
Where all experiences would be open to me
And pain but a mild passing hindrance.

Would I choose to stay the same
Exactly as I am
In an ever changing world?

Would I choose to live forever?
Watching all I love perish over time
While I remain, untouched

Would I choose to live without regret?
Outside the boundaries of Time
I can live that precious moment,
Not once, but millions of times!
No consequences for I have eternity to change my mind.

Would I choose to watch
The trees and the oceans and the skies
All fall under the hand of humanity?
Would I choose to witness
Their slow agonizing death
Over not years, but centuries?

Would I choose to actually give you forever?
The two of us, in love, together for time un-ending
While around us the world changes
And slowly slips into the shadows of darkness
Yet we can do nothing but exist....forever

Would I choose perpetual youth
And never fear death or old age?

But it is not death I fear.
A life of wasted moments, a life of unvalued memories, a life of meaningless emotions.
That, I fear.

So would I choose Immortality?

No
For it is the value of Time that lets us truly live.