Outlook

I stand
And in view
I see
A future
Stretched out before me
Beckoning
Calling me forward
To a life unknown
Undesired until introduced
Clean and untouched
As fresh fallen snow
Sat on sunlit hiltop
Untouched
Awaiting the first intrepid footfall
The explorer
An investigator of the unknown
Stepping forward
Into
An unexplored future
As I
Stand now
On
The brink
The cusp
Ready to fall
Uncontrolled
Into someone else's future
Or to step
With a dogged determination
Into
A future
Of my own


Terry Rhiannyr
December 2012