Life Poem by NAYYAR SHABBIR AHMAD

She promised me
this palmist
that I would meet a tall, dark, and handsome stranger
I wanted to believe
So, I had no reason to disbelieve her

I entertained those hopes for years
until an uneventful and tedious life took over

Now 40 years later
I wonder
Would my life have been any different
had I met that tall, dark and handsome stranger?

Fantasy tells me, yes
But reality tells me that my life
would have been exactly what it was destined to be
Uneventful and tedious