The Future

PAD Challenge day 10: write a future poem

The Future is at the mercy

Not of Past but Present

It leaves in its wake

Outgrown shoes,

Cookies crumbs

And echoes of what once was

The Future dreams…

…'of living in the UK because

She like the rain’

She tells me

Over breakfast

And morning prayers

The Future boards school-buses

Consuming much more

Than we know

As it strips the Present

Of its offering

Before it is Past

The Future bounces basket-balls

With eyes on a skyline

Of endless possibility,

Home is a launch-pad

To destinations

Unknown

Here they come,

Blue-green-brown-eyed

Blond-brunette potential

The Future; at the mercy

Of choices we make

Today

© Janet Martin

Today Matt’s classmate (Gr. 10) is getting his foot amputated in hopes of ridding his body of cancer. While his buddies dream of baseball, driving, girls…Colton dreams of having a Future.

Hugs and prayers, Colton and family.