A dream of the Future

A Dream of the Future

The future that never happens

is the one that makes us do

what we do while we are waiting

for what is never going to come

to take us away from the past,

which is a country that we do not

know anymore, where the language

is strange, only almost familiar.

Years not only go by, they carry us

into places where we meet the dragons,

the gorgons, the pack of wolves

circling with their sharp teeth, and

sometimes we lift a candle, sometimes curse.

Like scarecrows, we scare a bird or two.

We know what we are and are not.

But still we keep on dreaming, warming

our hands over the fire in that cottage

at the end of the road—where everything

is prepared for us, and someone we

never met has departed only minutes ago.