The Contrary Vocation

Being a pessimist is such a difficult vocation
-when we are right life seems rather sad, and bad
which makes our being wrong that positive
that other people wish were wrong more often.   

A Different Beat

If you want to be ahead of your time,
then live without fear of being maligned
from being at the edge of other peoples lives.
Your will not be able to rely on your life
being recounted when you are gone,
much less can you hope for accurate recollection.
But whoever remembers you with acceptance
will recount how you were out-of-other-peoples-step
with them. You will be fixed in their minds
as outside of all the times you shared in, ahead forever.