but not beyond.
I'll see the celebrations
of the 100th anniversary of Paul McCartney's birth
but not the 100th anniversary of England winning the World Cup
Will I see the complete domination of driverless cars?
The mass unemployment of people replaced by Artifical Intelligence?
Will I live to witness mass extinction
or human greatness in preventing it?
Will climate changes render present ways of living impossible
before I am lowered into my grave?
Let's say I die in two days' time
that's 1st October 2020.
I won't see my children's journeys through life
Won't be there to help them if they need me.
On the other hand I won't face the pain
of their inevitable upsets and disappointments.
I won't even learn the full consequences
of Covid-19 or Brexit.
Does any of it matter?
Not for the dead,
but even, ultimately for the living,
is it all just a soap opera
invented in our heads
scriptwritten by Fate
and directed by the Genes
Fate placed into our embroyonic self?
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