Pursuit of Immortality
I used to mock the pursuit of eternity
Human's desire for immortality
Not much different from a germ
A genetical struggle for survival
The elixir of immortality
The art of alchemy
Religions of reincarnation
Faith in the Seven Heavens
Out to the vastness of the universe
Inwardly to spirits transcendental
From the most subtle calculations
To the uncertainty of probability
From the certain dead
To the never-yet-born
From lithoglyph to the Clouds
Weddings, funerals
Science, art
But everything man has done
Isn't it all about immortality?
Isn't that even now I write poetry
because of my fear of death
That depth of no return?
Isn’t a book left behind
A monument of deathless mind?
Though, it will annihilate
曾经嘲笑那些追求永生的努力
人类追求不朽的愿望
其实和病菌没有什么两样
要么你死我活，要么无限繁殖
驻颜术，炼金术
转世轮回的宗教
七重天堂的信仰
向外，向大到无边的宇宙
向内，向超越物质的精神
从最精微的研究计算
到大概率的不确定性
从必死、已死的
到从未出生的
从刻在石头上的
到存在云端的
婚俗，葬礼
科学，艺术
人类所作的一切
不都是在追求永生吗？
就连此刻我写诗
不也是因为怕死
怕永无来日吗?
身后一本书
不也是一座纪念碑？
虽然，终将湮灭
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Deep thoughts in this poem that provoke reflection. I suppose you are right we all seek immortality in our own way. I have no fear of dying or being forgotten but I would like to feel that I had contributed to something good while I was here and in this there is a sense of immortality. I usually define poetry as something that evokes feeling but this time it has evoked thought a fave
Plato thinks the same- man’s pursuit of immortality
Well written and expressed
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