Its Name is the Future

Isolation – Henry Zhang

Madison Perry

Its Name is the Future

It’s something I think about

When lying in bed

I always feel it

Looming over my head

 As much as I try to control it

It finds a way to tame me instead

There are two parts

Named Far and Near

The uncertainty it brings

Is what causes so much fear

Its face is undetermined

Just like the place

It will lead me to

Sometimes I start to wonder

What would happen if I knew?

What would happen if it let me see

The place that I will be

With it as my guide?

Would I laugh, would I cry?

Would I smile, or simply sigh?

Do I want to see its face

See its hands see its eyes

Do I really want to see what the rest of my life will be like? 

Its name is the Future

Yes, that is so

And I don’t know where it will take me

Or where I want to go.