Analysis of Would you live forever?



The strange question of living forever rings through my mind very often. Makes me think about all of the different eras and the different creatures and powers that would arise before my very eyes, and all I would have to do is wait.
People say eventually you would run out of things to do and you'd lose your mind and yearn for death. but that's simply not possible In the grand scheme of the universe because it is infinite with infinite possibilities. Living forever may be a plague to the minds of some but a wonder to a person such as myself.

Despite the desire to observe the universe that lay bare I only have been so lucky to have witnessed the planet I call home, the solar system that father's us, and the stars billions of light-years away.

Would I live forever?
If only I could be worthy of such a fate.
For Little I, am worth no more than the tendrils fallen from trees.
With the spectrum of all there is; power, energy, intelligence, and yet all victims to the same peril.
Relativity bends the mind for time never ceases.
But if I were to be as time the gratification would be never ending flowing on the same river as my wonder.
Still we stand in fear of the ever waiting departure.

To wish to not live forever is to slander the universe and it's beauty.

I wish to observe. I wish to hold onto knowledge no one of my race has held. Nothing in my Galaxy has held. And I'd be willing to wait however long I need to.


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Words 287
Sentences 18
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 1, 7, 1, 1
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 94
Words per line (avg) 23
Letters per stanza (avg) 225
Words per stanza (avg) 54

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Why I would

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Written on June 23, 2021

Submitted by MilkShake4 on January 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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