What the Future Holds

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It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.  ~Voltaire

I have been lost on this journey more times than I could count

Wandering aimlessly hoping certainty will be found

I hope it is up ahead, just passed the next closest ridge

But I cautiously stay where I am trying to see it from this bridge

What is ahead?  I ask myself again and again

Hoping for no heartache wanting time to be my friend

But life provides no assurance that loss will not come my way

And certainty is a mirage that never truly shows its face

Now another year is over, and another will come to call

And I look into the future like a gypsy and a crystal ball

Maybe I need a compass to direct me to northern skies

And remind me it is now that should fill my wandering eyes

For yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is beyond my grasp

So may I learn to focus on the now, and abundantly live the life I have.

©Carrie Van Horn 2019