The Silent Treatment

I am talking to the future
but the future doesn’t hear
or won’t reply. I ask,
“What will happen if
I make that choice or this,
if I pursue one course of action
or another? ”

But the future will not answer,
the future does not bother
even to acknowledge my requests.
It sits there
so silent and impassive
I wonder if it’s even there at all.

 

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