THE MAKROPULOUS CASE

I wanted that drug
the drug that could take me higher
the drug that could keep me living
the drug that causes immortality
I needed it
I had to have it
death inspired me to live forever.

I felt the needle chill in my veins
the drug coursing through my body,
like liquid gold.
I closed my eyes and drifted off into the deep recesses of my mind.
I awoke calm and with great mental clarity
nothing could stop me now.  
The days passed normally
then the years drifted on with the routines of life,
still the same old, same old daily grind.
Even though I knew I had to take the drug every 100 years I wondered what was going on.
I finally realized I wasn't the same.
While friends and family grew old, and died
I didn't age at all.

I realized I could be anything I wanted to be
in my wildest dreams.
I could have success, fame,and money,
or poverty and despair.
I could change the world for good or evil
I could find God or the devil. 
I did all those things and more.
I built things up to make heaven on earth,
only to have it destroyed with one push of a button,
and then turn it around and make things new again.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, all the while watching
the phoenix rising.
 
As the centuries dragged on
it got tedious.
I was dying of boredom. 
It was still always the same old thing
rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat
it got old while I didn't.
I didn't want to do it anymore.
I had loved so many times that love lost its soul.
I've grieved so many times death lost its sting.
I've lived so many times life lost its beauty.
I still hadn't found what I was looking for. 
Death had inspired me to live forever 
but now death inspires me to live until my last breath.
I stopped taking the drug.

Now as I lay on my death bed
I chose good over evil
cause that's the way it's supposed to be.
a universal truth.
People come and go in your life
material things rust and fall apart.
Don't get attached to the ebb and flow of life
nothing lasts forever.
This too shall pass.
Listen to these words of the great messiah.
Live in the world, but not be of it.
I didn't believe in hope, now hope surrounds me
A day is a thousand years and a thousand years are like a day,
I broke free from the darkness, and let the light shine through,
and was saved for the very last time.