The Fortune Teller’s Globe

You can’t help yourself. You want
Good things to happen to you.
You fret bad things will happen.

Most of your life is just that,
Most of what you’re aware of.
If you’re especially good

And anxious to be useful,
You’ll want good things to happen
To certain other people,

Maybe large groups of people.
If you’re typical, you will
Only rarely wish evil.

You’ll want good things to happen.
Although you’re not always sure
Which things that happened were good.

You’re often confused, often
Disappointed, and sometimes
You’re alarmed, but you plow through.

What’s good for you keeps changing.
What used to be good is gone.
While you want, you carry on.