the future is not what it used to be

there was a plan once.

you wrote it

down on a sheet of paper

when young.

along the way,

changes were made,

lines erased.

good things

happened, bad things too,

as can be expected.

but you imagined how

it would be.

what your life would

look like, you believed

that to live without dreams,

was to live a life of

mediocrity.

and then the future

happened.