I Don'T Believe In Ends Poem by Annie Cordelia Adams

um...let me just go ahead and tell you everything
i told you tonight
that i don't believe in time
for i don't believe in ends

i don't believe in waking to a darker day
where light decides to fade itself away

i don't believe in making Heaven rush to find me
when i want to find it on my own
for time deserves nothing
time is Satan's only gain

i don't want to
die
i don't mean i am afraid
i mean i am disgusted with ends
does the sunset have an end
if you follow it?

but if you wait for the sun to rise again
you have bartered your soul for time
time is for the ones who cannot control their minds

time is nothing
it's only perceived by the mind
not the heart
or the soul

the earth isn't vast enough to hold my heart
it isn't wide enough for my roads to part
earth does not hold eternity
for i cannot always follow the sun
even the Sea ends
though i pretend it not to be so

so i should just say
that the Sea is a simple letter
something God left behind
for me to read and hope
that one day i will find
the door to infinity

my heart belongs
beyond the Eastern Ocean
beyond the Silver Sea
beyond the Seven Isles
in the Land of Numinor
and yet beyond
to the Undying Lands

and yet they seem fantasy
but their authors knew of something real, i think,
that they also knew
of worlds beyond the brink

where moth and rust do not corrupt

if you think i mean to die
if you think i mean to go to Heaven now,
Heaven is for after this life,
for when the Earth takes his bow

i only mean to stay alive
for eternity
for i do not believe in time
or mortality in me