That's Where It's Hidden

"What's this war in the heart of nature ?                
Why does nature vie with itself?
The land contend with the sea?
ls there an avenging power in nature?
Not one power, but two?
             
l remember my mother when she was dying
Looked all shrunk up and gray.
l asked her if she was afraid.        
She just shook her head.
l was afraid to touch the death l seen in her.
I heard people talk about immortality,
but I ain't seen it.
l wondered how it'd be when l died.
What it'd be like to know that this breath now
was the last one you was ever gonna draw.
l just hope l can meet it the same way she did.
With the same... calm.
Cos that's where it's hidden -
the immortality l hadn't seen."

Private Edward P. Train (John Dee Smith) - The Thin Red Line