Tarot Reading

In the New Age nineties,
I learnt to read
the Tarot,
but soon realised
I didn't need the cards.

For the future
is plain and simple:
At any moment,
we are free
to do whate'er we will.

It is only that the past
has so much momentum
and we do not dare
to jump
from this driverless Chariot.

Nor do we sieze the reins,
nor yet say, 'Hang on -
this is just an archetype
and that bloke Jung
is not the boss of me.'

Just once,
I would have liked someone
to tell me I was fake;
that I saw nothing,
for there is only Now.