Who Wants to Live Forever

WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER

The wind of change doth blow

                The roots dig deep

From every tempest we know

Rain, shine, drought and flood

                Tests the mettle of every soul

As each aspires

                To that divine goal

Step by step

                We move ahead

Embracing hope, and dread

                Whether asked or not

These tests besought

Growth comes, with a toll

                Toll enwraped in pain

For without tests

                We have not gained

Each knows not their lot, in life

Or how much in store

Of joy or strife

                Though aware

That our lives

                With tests are rife

Asked for, or not,

The river of change we ride

Fast, slow, turbulent or calm

All comes to pass

For nothing, good or bad

                Will last

We jump from stone to stone

                Towards that eternal home

Sometimes off that path, we roam

                Yet in the end, ready o not

 we reach that realm

I breath in deep

                The chilled air of change

Facing the unknown

                Steeling myself

For those tests, unknown

As I release my breath

                The tempest, doth wane

And with inner eye

                Supplications to the sky

those troubles and worries I decry

                I step forward

To a future unknown

                -Shiidon, September 2016