I’ve always found I’m floating on through life’s unceasing stream
An observer in the driving seat with a role in every scene The controls all sit before me, all the buttons, wheels and dials And I push and turn and twists them all through each one of my trials It almost always seems as though they’re functional and true Yet the feeling’s bound within me that there’s nothing I can do Can’t change the time they’re turned, nor stop the hand from reaching out The cause-effect decision tree eternally in doubt Sometimes I try to prove control, refusing to compel And the feature flows around me, and the feeling doesn’t quell Though I’ve stopped the story weaves on in with each abandoned thread So I can’t tell if I’m trapped in here, a spectator in a head The experience I’m witnessing I can’t and won’t complain The cinematic storyline does not fail to entertain The protagonist has many flaws he seems to overcome To plot twists, hurdles, challenges: keeps failing to succumb I hope the author knows to where this story arc is aimed As the plotted puzzle pieces never fit within the frame Whoever should be guiding this, if anyone exists I fear’s a lazy gardener whose plans do not persist Or am I more afraid an architect has planned my every move So I pass through rigid motions slotted firmly in the groove Though random chance and happenstance seem more attuned to lead Uncertainty inexorable from the fate I can’t be freed As I age the stream still seems to grows until all land I cannot spot And the ocean of existence rocks my tiny floating yacht While there I am within in it peering deep into the blue Seeing little but a ripple on the top of the milieu
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