The Future awaits

Taunting me in its ambiguity

Presenting its ever changing possibilities

Unsettling mares that wake me from my sleep

No rest will be for me

as I sink before I swim

and my dreams seem paper thin

beside the harsh realities of life

Each step I take

drags me backward a mile

The journey doesn’t seem worth the while

as I drown each time I’m saved

Time ticks on slowly

even as the years fly by

Even as hope lives and dies

the future waits patiently