If We Could Live Forever

What would we do Today Knowing there was no end No need to do the things We think we have to do Today? Would we care about one another In the same way Or not? Knowing that mother and father And sister and brother And husband or wife And precious child Can never die? Why fear? Why worry? Why care? When life goes on forever The tedium of forever Making each day and night No different from the rest Of an unending Eternity. If we could live forever What would we do Today That we couldn't do Tomorrow? Why bother? Today Why bother? Tomorrow What's the difference After all, when you take away The immediacy of death? Death is the immortal savior that Raises life to its most satisfying heights Drives us to great deeds To deep relationships And profound experience That otherwise would be so Blasé. ~ Laurence Overmire