Poetry / Gypsy
Once I traveled to a far off place
Just to see what I could see
Wondering what in this moving world
Would ever become of me
And as I wandered, I stopped upon
A darkly night robed street
The kind of place where you never know
Who or what you’ll meet
And as I stood in the shadows deep
A woman came to me
Trailing sights from the future fair
Asking if I wanted to see
And as I stood I wondered brief
Would I want to see?
Would I believe the future fair,
If she showed it to me?
She whispered soft into my ear
“Palm readings are for free,
Bits of the future for you I’ll share,
If you’ve bits of silver for me.”
The touch of her fingers across my palm
The slide of the future to me
Telling me of the past where I’d been
And where I soon would be
“This for you”, she whispered low, “but
The future is never free.”
“I’ll share the world with you tonight,
But for this you pay me.”
Smiling slightly, I paid her well, calling
“Then let it be.”
She nodded once, then turned away,
“You must follow me.”
All the world grew still and dark, but
Everything seemed to be
The same as it has always been, and
I was the same old me
And then I noticed the little things that
Time had let me see
And the changes that I noticed now,
Brought me to my knees
My mind began to race and swirl, and
I knew I had the key
For the old gypsy that brought me here
Had given the future to me
Once I traveled to a far off place
To see what I could see
Knowing what in the moving world
Would now become of me
To see the future, you must have faith
I’d share, but there’s a fee
Palm readings, that I do for you, but,
The future is never free.
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This is thoughtful, and sentimental.
The message about the future is unclear, referencing prayer, or self will? It is an act of self will to use divination, but there is a time and place for wonder, or indecision like on a “darkly night robed street”. Once I see “night”, I know it is dark though. Words like forlorn, gloomy, shadowy, creepy, also work in this instance.
Were did you follow her to? The plot thickens, but then it is like looking through a crystal ball, not knowing what to look for?
Did you actually see the future, or was it a lesson of the palm readers salesmanship?
“Then let it be” you said, good suggestion, not to linger about in ‘trade secrets’, or wonder where your money went. I don’t believe it was “Time had let me see” the future, I gather it was a metaphor for acting irresponsible.
This subject is controversial, and we won’t please everyone the first time through. Many are fascinated over the future, so what role could you possibly have played in the future before returning from “the far off place” so we know what to look for?
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