My future self

In a dream of future foreseen, a stranger I see, Familiar, yet foreign, just staring back at me. Lines etched by laughter, eyes bright with knowing, Face creased, scarred and pitted with forgoing, Harangued and haggled with lines of old age. A tapestry of choices made, right there on stage. Suddenly, I recognize this creature standing there. It's a strange concoction of self-awareness in the glare, It's my future self, rejigged and rearranged, Of future and past potential, all there estranged. There's a whispers of triumph in the hair, Shades of regret, darkness under the eyes that stare. Rosy cheeks beam the warmth of relationships much cherished. A smile half-baked is tangled in lament, entwined, embellished. I see a montage of moments I've not lived yet. An amalgam of potential, of what not quite, not yet met. Of things tried, juggled, shuffled, as corrections. Of resolutions, lessons, and inner self-reflections. What dreams were bloomed? What paths were trodden? What mountains were scaled? In what sea was I sodden? How has this future seen, and past reshaped, conned the future me? It's mosaic of maybes, a collage of what could be, A kaleidoscope of who I could, and might be yet. An echo chamber for all my tomorrows yet to get. Shaken and forsaken, I awaken to the real myself, Saying goodbye, good riddance, to my future self.