Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Shake my Future
shake my future push me past complacency
my taken-for-granted comfort zones
shake my future let me source the unimagined
be released from the sentence of the inevitable
take control, empower myself
past the dour predictions of the present
and change myself
shake my future challenge our ‘first world’s
capitalist consumerist criminal zone
of perpetual purchasing
shake my future past the edges of the known
world launch me out into the hinterlands
of the intuited imagined
beyond the droughts of apathy
and quench my thirst for something different
shake my future with alternative endings
curdle the milk of human kindness beyond
the patronizing rattle of charity cans
to preserve the poor and assuage my guilt
shake my future with a kaleidoscope of tunes
play some other melody and bliss me out
of ignorance and let my mind expand with a question
and seeking the answers shake my future
in a triangle of tangential tirades and beckon me
into a sandwich of hope and yes we can
Dorothea Smartt
