Drama and climax

What is, lives and dies
What dreams, may yet become
What am I but both these things?
Do I follow a straight path
To ripen then decay?
Does age mean deterioration or refinement?
Dreaming may lead me to my ends
But at the end
Will this drama and climax
Sink into oblivion?
Believing that one's actions
Will be remembered in a millenia
May well be foolish
But more foolish is forgetting
That to act takes precedence to memory
The moment takes precedence to reflection