"For As Long As Forever May Be"

Does forever exist to you?
It hasn't existed to me.

How do you define forever?
Your entire life?
An hour of the day that seems endless?

...

Endless.

Do you define forever as being eternal?

We seem to throw this word around, a lot
We seem to throw this word around quite easily, actually

Why?

Why do we use this word even when it isn't the case?

Perhaps, in that moment, we truly mean it.
But what happens when that moment ends?
It's no longer forever, is it?
And, then, your past words become meaningless
Empty.
Hollow.
Until they are forgotten.
Until they are brought up, once again, but in a different moment

I'm sure, when you say it, you may think it
You may even feel it.
But what happens when, once again, that new moment ends?

Is it a vicious cycle of empty forevers?
Is this cycle what forever means?
Going on and on and on and on.......
Thinking you mean it.
Thinking you feel it.
Thinking you want it.
Exaggerating the truth.
Exaggerating the moment.
Exaggerating your desires.

We use this word so loosely,
And, yet,
It seems to mean the most to us.
It seems to grab a hold of us
And suffocate us until we feel it
Until we say it
And, then..

It disappears.

So how long is forever?

...

Forever is..

..for as long as forever may be.