Immortality

It's the nature of me and you
to yearn for immortality
It's always been, will always be
a shared essence
And I'm just a man, asking the same
long after I'm gone
Because I'm as bad as the worst
and as good as the best
You're the woman of my manliness
We have us in common

And yet a sense of deathlessness
is not what I'm after
I'm really quite content
to drift away, unremembered
except in the mind of you
The woman I love so well
who loves me too, as long
as I am here to know and love
It's in your mind I need
to be immortal, unforgotten

Not in your heart, it will belong
to others along the way
But in your memory
where all loves find their source
Untarnished, improved
by obstacle and distance
What greater obstacle than death
What greater distance
What brighter light could shine
on passions left behind

Accomplishment, as a legacy
isn't what I hope to leave
Fame in the arts is out of reach
of my best work
Still there's such a burning
need to be remembered
Rememberance is permission
Your approval when I'm gone
So I'll choose my own immortality
You'd allow me that

I choose thunderstorms
Think of me when they roll in
Earth and stars, the sun and moon
all too commonplace
Preference is all that's left to me
and all I have, I leave to you
Dramatic, unrestrained
Don't think of me in common storms
but only when lightening
bolts the sky and thunder boils

They come so seldom
These romantic masterworks are scarce
Announcing themselves
not shyly like I might if I were there
but with all the cymbals crashing
So unlike my quiet love for you
these storms were here before me
rolling through your hills
They'll be here when we both are gone
Remember me in them