Off-side

I am paying
in home goals
and this game
is no fun
because I
am losing
to the cosmos
because my
scorecard is marked
and because
the white towel
seems to have
been conveniently
misplaced.
And now
my past and my
present scrutinised
and my future
mapped by
cause and effect
I am the sum of
what I have done
and what I will do.
Einstein for dummies
not eternally damned
but nonetheless
haunted by
metaphysics
round and round
the mulberry bush
I go while the
prodigal son returns.