“Ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of being forever”
~ Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia
If we exist forever, well past time,
Mere time, our lives will be much fuller than
Our slim imaginations. We will climb
Past Alpine heights, more star-like, than a man
On Everest or on Olympus Mons.
Immortal life will help us to become complete
Composers made as alloys, steel or bronze,
As high as Bach and Beethoven, the sum
Of them and Mozart also mixed in heat
For keyed perfection. Or we might surprise
And be a full artistic sculptors suite
