The Cost of Immortality

In a minute life can seem so long,
but when you blink it can all be gone,
time is fast yet time is slow,
there is so much that we do not know.

One day people will live forever,
I doubt that never shall stay never,
yet day after day, year after year,
perhaps they shall wish to stay near.

Playgrounds shall be overgrown,
games and toys become unknown
as children grow rare,
we start to despair.

Manufactured foods, packages galore,
but it's not enough we still need more,
we're missing the past,
hoping this silence won't last.

Our immortality has become a curse,
nursery rhymes and amusing verse,
vague reminders of what we have lost,
this is what immortality has cost.