If only I could live a hundred life times
To learn ten thousand stories
From the mouths of those survivors
Who lived them on their journeys

And spend a million moments
Unraveling every mystery
From the mundane to the magical
Till I can recite all their histories

Let me spend my waking days
Discovering all the greatest wonders
Hidden in edenic cravasses
And where worlds are torn asunder

But what an incredible waste
To know these mysteries and wonders
If they never make it to the page
Leaving my heart and mind encumbered

With the wisdom of infinity
Without the youthful promise of eternity.