Best Mysteryfuture Poems
32: Ode to a Fortunetelling
I.
The land was never to rest
The princess locked in a tower
The Tarot card laid on the chest
Her feelings began to sour
The teller made an impression.
The reading made her afraid
Causing her land to shake
No longer an innocent maid
Her future unlocked a black quake
Regretting this fortunetelling session.
II.
With bad news outlined and decked,
The princess’ plans become questions.
Is my future so hopelessly wrecked?
Could all these cards offer suggestions
On how to avoid certain death?
Now the tellers is free from the prison
The girl’s dread grows to an unheard of height
He leaves the poor princess in derision
Lamenting her bad luck and plight
It is hard to capture her breath.
III.
Are you leaving me with no way fight this?
She calls after him furious and contrite
He replies that no one can avoid the abyss
Her thoughts reel with contempt and spite
How is she supposed to digest this mess?
The foreseer just shrugs his shoulders
Lets the door lock on it own
She tears the armor from its holders
I guess I am battling this one alone
Never again to wear a pink silken dress.
Their memories & reality have become traumatized with the violence of their troubled past.
Now their future is blurred with visions of their recurring tragic past.
They have become numb, unable to see, feel, think, hear, and taste like the normal.
What have they become? We do not know, neither do they understand nor have they forgotten
their culture of old that plagues their memories continually dimming the future they see,
painting it dark red.
Daily the future they see bleeds, till it is empty justifying the reason for what they
have become. This is the only story that makes meaning & sense to them, others are yet to
make an impact on them.
What do we do to save us from ourselves & from our environment imposed captivity?
What shall we do to break this cocoon of captivity that shields us from the real
overshadowed truth?
And for how many years will it take this overshadowed truth to be buried in its silence?