Forever is an ugly word

Inspiring, enticing, incorrigible
promise and implications immense
execution uncertain, incomplete

Forever is overly simplistic

hopeless realization intoxicates
a siren-like, self-coaxing impossibility
mocking, scornful of your naiveté

Forever is an ugly word

gracefully benign until practiced;
its only relationship to reality is its
ultimate, untimely, predictable demise