FATE

When you left the house
and heard an ambulance wail,
what would you have done
if you had known
it wailed for you?

Oh yes: I know that
all my life,
from out of the future
an ambulance
has been coming for me.
Its driver has the map;
his schedule's well defined.
He knows the time,
he knows the place
we'll meet on my road through life.

As for me, I stagger on,
unknowing and quite blind