Time's Sultan Of Doom Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

If you live long enough
you can outgrow everything
even uncertainty and doubt

As the road fades behind you
and memories compress
giving you a final way out

Taking you into a magical land
between two worlds where you
float in-between

One where you struggled and questioned yourself
and one made of wishes
and dreams

All choices abandoned and willed to the past
the either-or the most cryptic
of tombs

As you travel within and beyond just yourself
all past futures
—time's sultan of doom

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April,2018)