IMMORTALITY

An epigram by F. Schiller translated by JMarc Rakotolahy

IMMORTALITY

Are you afraid of death?

Do you wish to live eternally?

Live fully!

If you live long enough so,

Something will remain.

Reviews

[Katherine Moure]

I've always wondered why humanity is conditioned to want eternity. There's no way I would want to live forever. Hasn't anyone ever seen the Highlander? Haha! I'm kidding... but seriously, I like the positivity you use in poems about death. More people need to question the quality of their life, and welcome the peace that may come with, or possibly without, eternity. The joy in your words conveys this sentiment very well.

[Mauricio Montoya]

Wow short like life, no not death so much but what I will leave behind as you pointed out in the last line. Not bad for a short piece. Great job.

[x]

Hahaha, this is great.
Of course one should live fully...is there any other way!!

And what we leave behind, that which is remembered... is the love we shared along the way. The rest is just monuments, not memories.

[Ed Hart]

to my mind many people attempt to encounter forth dimensional realities with third dimensional tools; it reminds me of fixing my car engine when I was a teenager: I always had pieces left over, and always wound up missing at least one important one... Ed

[Deborah Shepard]

each person leaves pieces of the soul to share if they live fully in themselves i lothis one , keeping

love and light

[Touché Armada]

Non New Yorker here... I kind of find this whole concept foreign and quite bizarre the fear and anxiety that surrounds death, being that it's as natural as birth, from one we inhale deeply and scream for the other we exhale gently and rest. I guess the attitude toward life and death are hinged on what ever a person believes. For me I believe everyone and everything is immortal automatically. Because everyone and everything is composed of matter that does not cease to exist it simply undergoes a metamorphoses, and the tiny currents of electricity tend to morph as well I believe, part of a greater consciousness or body of matter, something quite recyclable.. Live fully yes in some ways I agree in other ways I believe living fully en mass has lead to an empty life on a few levels, but that's all a bit much to try to convey at this hour of the morning, when I should be sharp but want to conserve it for a little latter.
However the man is still an interesting philosopher, thanking you.

[Irfan Shah]

Well said and well translated.