Immortal

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As I stand here

From the cliff, looking down

I wonder how hard my body would hit

Oh how pleasant would be the sound


To hear my bones splinter and shatter

To see the blood pool around

Yes, that's what I wish would happen

When my body hits the ground


But every time I make that jump

I'm able to walk away

Yes, with pain so excruciating

Alas, it never stays


My bones fix themselves up

My skin stitches together

Have I ever left to the other side?

No, I've lived forever


My thoughts were not always like this

I used to love my life

But I have made many mistakes

And it is now full of strife


The centuries have passed

And I've lived through them all

Watching my loved ones leave me

Watching my family fall


As a child, eternal life

Who would pass that up?

But older now, I understand

How badly I messed up


To live my life and serve my time

To have the cycle end

That is what should have happened

That's as it should have been


But Fate decided otherwise

And blessed me with a curse

My brothers, my wife, my child...

I don't know which loss was worse


I had accepted my fate

Of always lingering here

But burying my son

That was more than I could bear


Alone I wander

Never knowing why

It was me chosen to live this way

Why it was I who couldn't die


The loneliness consumes me

The darkness doesn't pass

Oh how I wish to be destroyed

Like a fallen piece of glass


Are you enjoying this?

Do you find satisfaction from my pain?

Have you cursed others as you have cursed me?

What are you trying to gain?


What have I done to earn this torture?

What crime did I commit?

What could I have possibly done?

What action caused your rage to be lit?


Whatever it was, I promise you

With every fiber of my being

I repent


I wish to pass on, I beg you

It is too much time I've spent


Have you forgotten?

Have you abandoned me?

Have you left your little test

Unable to rot among the rest?


When shall I at last be set free?

What shall finally sate thee?

When my mind is gone

Whilst thou then show pity?

What urged you to create me?


Why am I not allowed to die?

Are you listening?

Do you silently berate me?

As I sit here among my tears


I've no one to save me

Oh Death, why must you escape me?

I beg you, please take me.


God...


Oh God...


Why do you hate me?


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