Day 128: Stuck in the Moment

Driving down the road

I wonder

What this all looked like a hundred years ago

Five hundred?

Six hundred thousand?

Was it just trees and animals?

Lakes and streams

Birds chirping

The food chain and the circle life working in perfect harmony

And I wonder what it will look like

One hundred

Six hundred years from now

Of course cars will fly

Perhaps people

Scotty might be beaming us up by then

Some might be living on Mars

Or cities floating in the ocean

All the old world problems will be solved

To make way for the war with aliens

Driving down the road

I like to wonder

But wondering doesn’t get me anything

It doesn’t buy me McDonald’s

Or a new house

Wondering won’t get my homework done

Or take the wife out for date night

Wondering is wonderful

Until I blink

The light turns red

And I have to brake to realize that I will never escape

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