Immortality
To live forever! Think how it might be!
Oh Fount of Youth more prized than all earth’s gold.
To be as ancient gods and not grow old!
To banish all disease and see death flee
before the face of immortality!
With less to dread, would we become more bold?
Alas, the fate of mortals is foretold.
We live with dying and its misery.
But death is not the end. We’re here to learn.
The planet Earth is our brief testing ground,
and when we die, our spirits then take flight.
Perhaps to earth in new forms we return!
But to our graves I know we are not bound
because, at last, we’ll travel to God’s light.
March 3, 2017 An Italian Sonnet
for Broken Wing's I Form( Immortal theme) Poetry Contest
Now for ''I'' Contest New Or Old Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
(thanks for letting us resurrect older poems!)
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