Secrets of Eternity

By Kimberly Nguyen

Posted on October 1, 2024

Cover Image Title: Toronto at Dusk

Cover Image by: Allison Kim

Medium: Photograph

Size: 4032 pixels x 3024 pixels

Year: 2024

Location: Toronto, Canada

Secrets of Eternity 

How beautiful fragility is 

And how sad it is to be prideful of immortality 

How freeing it is to be mortal 

The wind will never blow the same 

The stars will never shoot as before 

mortality is a loophole to time 

Beauty and youth is fleeting but whatever is left is true

And forever  

Love will always remain the same 

I’ve never believed in any other fate nor destiny than my mortality

Nothing more has given me greater meaning and passion 

Is there any beauty, youth, or love in immortality? 

Immortality: a curse that turns gold to nothingness 

I wonder if their pride will ever turn to envy 

How lonely it must be 

for the earth and all it’s gems

to slip and perish between the cracks of immortal hands 

Description:

“Secrets of Eternity” is about the value of time. Nearly all of us have had that brief thought of living forever and initially, we think it would be a privilege: to never have to worry about passing or risking our lives but this poem speaks to the beauty of mortal life. It’s beautiful to have something so valuable such as life and be afraid to lose it. We are lucky to be fearful of losing because if not, that leaves nothing to value or love. Golds such as beauty, youth, love diminish in the face of immortality. There can only be meaning in these gems if there is a balance: the possibility that it will someday fade with time.  

[Writing Editor: Anonymous]

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