Forever.
A long time;
Seeming long time,
For as time seems,
Forever is.

Immortality –
Life forever,
That in time’s terms
Seems long in time.
Forever to exist.
Forever is past;
Forever is future;
Forever is and was always;
Forever exists:

Forever is.

Old man’s face furrowed
Of age,
Would have forever
Abolished,
For wrinkled body
Dried and lined by
The decay of time
Conceives forever
As ongoing ageing,
Ongoing decay,
Of body,
Mind,
Body-mind;
Ageless spirit
Is unknown.

Old man betrothed
To his concept of time
Sees not the true egress
Of the body sublime,
Nor spirit awake above
The plane of time,
When he sees forever’s age and
Feels forever’s face,
With mind’s imaginings deluded
To mere bodily awareness.

Though progressed beyond this nature,
From time his mind’s not free,
And controls the body through thoughts
That hold him back from eternity.
When control of mind is mastered
No more time has be:
He has forever,
He is forever.
Immortality is always his
For immortality
Always is,
And was always
With him.