Trying Too Hard To Be Immortal

Another one from 2011 that I finished recently.

Trying Too Hard To Be Immortal

I whispered to the world

And said my secrets safe with you

Closed my eyes and turned

A golden key

Laid down to rest

But somehow

The earth had found

A way to be untrue

My secrets never mattered

To a mother cold as you

And no matter how I wished

Beneath stars or sinking moon

Not an answer

Just a promise

Of an ending coming soon

So I wandered through a thousand lives

And lived them one by one

Closed my eyes

They slipped away

I forgot where I'd begun