My Crystal Ball

My Crystal Ball

My crystal ball rolled away today

Why it left? Shit, I don’t know.

Where it is going is anybody’s guess

All I know right now is that I am in a mess.

For now, I must live each day

With a mind, now, basically, blind.

What is past is now forever in the past

What might lie ahead, for me,

No longer, resides in my head.

My vision of the future, for now is gone.

Ensnared in a dimension, not known of before

A place in time, where the future is not yours to see

For how long, god I would so love to know.

Maybe, if I’m lucky, just for a day or a week.

Or if my luck is less, a month or a year

Those lengths of time, I feel I can survive.

Ah, but, what if it goes on for longer?

I have no sure answer, of what I will do,

For I no longer have, a vision, to look into.

I fear life with no vision, not A future to hold

Out front, like a carrot, or bangle of gold.

No impetus to put, one foot before of the other.

To begin a search, one, which may never end

To follow the course of my crystal ball,

As it rolled away, into the glen.

My ball, though it’s a crystal sphere

It’s tinted blue, from its 200+ years.

It has been mine, on and off now,

For some sixty-nine years, and, yes,

It has been known to steer me wrong.

With that said, today is the day

I’ve decided, to just let it roll.

No, this time, I’ll not chase it down,

No, this time, it can continue on its way.

Yes, it can find someone brand new,

Someone new, for it to steer wrong.

©November 9, 2016

Richard Nurse

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