The Future

Why do I see you as an archetype to figure out
Where when the equation is just right, you can
Go on forever - to see that far with an engineering
Method, is not actually a thing in this science of
Life making; I am not a bridge and neither is
Future me. Unfortunate, because uncivil sciences
Would become the profession that I'm looking for
If they could be theorized or even believed; but
Because they are not to be trusted as far as I 
Could throw a puddle after a storm, I remain
Here, in the present (a darkness), from which 
There is not even the light of a fire dancing 
Across The Cave, telling old philosophers
How to think about concepts and decide
What the rest of their lives will look like