My Only Life Ambition

Like every life form in this World humans are born to die And the stories of an afterlife may even be a lie For not one I know who has passed away to me has come back to tell Of another life in another World of a heaven or of a hell If this is the only life we'll live what a failure I have been And though I've written reams and reams of stuff on the things I've done and seen Since in the eyes of big brother success I have not known Or as one would say the seeds of greatness in life I have not sown I must be seen as a non achiever a weed can never become a rose But not everyone can be a success such is life one must suppose And does it matter anyway since death it is our lot If your name will live for centuries or you will be forgot And my only ambition in life is to live for as long as I can And in my sleep die peacefully as a worn out old man.