I Don't Want Your Eternity

I don't need

The future. I have too much

Future already. I want

The past. I want your life.

To watch empires rise

And fall. To witness

The earth's turning.

And not just see;

To act! To shift the course

Of history with a word.

To remember it all.

All of it. Every second.

Some bitter torture I'd accept

Willingly; beg for it.

Because it is a safe wish.

It is something I know I cannot

Have.

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I wrote this a while ago. Actually, as an assignment for English, but, as I was thinking about Forever Knight when I wrote it, I figured why not post it here.