Assumptions

Be quiet

I always assumed

my future would be 

assumable

I pictured a big house against

a picturesque valley

Like a painting

But when I try to paint

You cant tell what 

from what

There is no picture

Colors merge and become

colorless and 

meaningless

Assuming my painting would just 

paint itself

This blurred image, this

vague dream

Presenting itself to you in your

minds eye

There is only an 

absence of clarity

What does one paint for

When all you have to do is close your eyes 

and shut up

The future is not a painting

It isn't an interpretation of an event

a day

an hour

a year

It is now

It is a photograph burning

a lost thought

a forgotten memory

misplaced in some past

a grammatical error

An assumption

Mistaken for a dream

A picture never painted

A day that never happened

And even if you assume it 

did happen

It didn't

Author's Note

I wrote this while on the toilet, where most of my business gets done.

Reviews

[Naraly Godinez]

I assume I'm lost . Iassume I liked it .I might also assume I just made assumptions .
The toilet you say ? Is a perfect place to pant by numbers

[I Am Svetlana]

"The future is not a painting." How true this line is and it sums up this whole piece. Our futures cannot be painted unless we have the dedication to sit down and figure out what we want it to look like, what colors we want and how we want it to turn out. Planning out our future, along with anyone else, is a process. It cannot be figured out or rushed in a small amount of time. Hence why people switch college majors all the time, they are in the moment of an idea and planning a future, then find something else and focus on that, having to change all their plans and wasting all the past money they used on nothing. We have to be careful on how we tread through each day, we must be wise and be positive and selective in what we want in life, how we expect to live.