#76 Personal - My Fear

While I was playing with magic objects one day

I came across a strange instrument indeed

I knocked it in a very particular way

And out of it some parchment was duly freed



It was scrunched, as though placed back in a rush

It had one big clear line, with disclaimers underlying

"View your future today!" was written in bold brush

"Though you can't change your future, except by dying"



It would be fantastic to know who I'm going to be

There's no doubt that we wonder about it each day

But a future set in stone was not to be for me

Having a definitive path was never my way



But it wasn't just that, you see I have a fear

Concerning exactly what I would hear

That my future is simply one of monotony

Such a curse would be like a lobotomy



That I would get a job earning more than I need

Focusing on the financial legacy I lead

Friends with whom I only talk small

Living a life that isn't a life at all



That I've given up my creativity

Laughing about my past efforts jovially

Becoming of the world, rather than being fascinated by it

Happy to just have a comfy home in which to sit



While I'm aware there are far worse fates I could uncover

Such a life is, I hope, not for me

May I have an interesting life, and then may I have another

Onwards onto uncertainty

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