DREAMS OF FUTURE: a sonnet

DREAMS OF FUTURE: a sonnet


Why thoughts of future now I should harbour?
Why should I plan the shape of things to come?
It’s no use worrying about the future
Why should the future be so bothersome?

Shall I design my moves as playing chess
On this chess board, the canvass of my life?
Shall I think, now, by what name I’ll address
My future son and daughter and my wife?

No, this is all mere worthless day-dreaming.
This game of chess is pre-planned already
By Him who’s always kind and well- meaning.
My every move for me He has ready.

We should all the time live in the present.
Why dream of future, or the past repent?



• Initially written as entry 427090 in the book FAITH, NATURE & INSPIRATIONAL, "FAITH, NATURE & INSPIRATIONAL" . Posted as the present static item on 27 July 2008.


M C Gupta
19 May 2006