Sonnet: Dear Future Me Poem by Allen Steble The Philosophical Poet

Dear future self, are you proud of me?
Did I set you up for sparkling success?
Or did I waste my youth in obscurity?
When you look back now, did I do my best?

Dear future me, do you like what you now see?
Did I take care of the temple in which you now dwell?
Or does your once silk skin sag from your bones like jelly?
When you look back now, would you say I invested well?

Dear future self, are you proud of what you have become?
Did I bring a beaming smile to your resplendent face?
Or are you now masking regret with bottles of tonic and rum?
When you peer back now, did I run my finest race?

So, when I am standing in front of a mirror in a decade or two
I will ask myself...are you proud of who's looking back at you?