Immortality

Immortality.

A huge building named after you at a famous college.
A scientific discovery that carries your name.
A film that you wrote that becomes a classic.

Perhaps.

Me, I'd trade all that for

A granddaughter that remembers me
when she is thirty;
long after my death
in spite of the fact
that I died
when she was five.

Many years later, when talking with a friend,
her friend says to her
"Do you remember your grandfather? I don't remember mine."
And my granddaughter says,
"I remember my grandfather so well.
"He was A...and X...and Y...and...Z."

And a tear forms in her eye.
And her heart seems to skip a beat.

THAT,
my friend,
is immortality.