Poetry out loud - My poem

The poem I picked was "I Close My Eyes" by David Ignatow and what i think the poem means is that if we do everythig according to what the world see's right then why cant we live forever if we try hard enough? I think that if we try to live a busy life and try to do all that we can that is required of us that we will have lived a wasted life for trying to be perfect. I think this is what David was trying to point out and that we cant live forever obviously so why try to do what the world expects us to do. I think he's trying to point out that we cant live forever by doing everything in our power that is required of us, that we jsut need to live life the way we want to instead of conforming. so the way i was gunna read this poem would be in a way were its sarcastically speaking and at the end i would sarcastically ask " why cant i live for ever? " to get the audience to realize its not by the stuff we are required to do thats important to use but by the things we do to fullfill our life with out own interests.