Be You

Future is unfurnished
The empty flat for sale
Would it kill  you to see it?
Just discover the tale.

I have met my future self
As a teenage girl
While waiting for a dazzling day
That was bound to unfurl

I saw myself in cowboy jeans
Exploring the Amazon
In a dahabiyeh on the Nile
Burnt brown by the sun

professor in an Erich Segal saga
An erudite academic life
A Robin Cook medical detective
Wielding cold clinical knife
And a host of other people
All fought in the same head
what would be my epitaph
When I'm dead

Wish I could go back to my childhood me
little girl  who waits and just wants to be
My dear one life isn't about a cue
To come onstage and
Perform
Just Be You.

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