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Do you believe in fairies?

Chapter 34: THE FUTURE
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A collection of short fantasies and lyrical poems written with a childlike eye, presenting whimsical encounters with fairies, goblins, and other small marvels set against ordinary streets and countryside. Narrative vignettes follow children and curious adults into secret glades, enchanted stones, and musical charms, while interleaved rhymes, ballades, and reflective sketches touch on adolescence, religion, city nights, and domestic humor. The pieces blend playful imagination with mild melancholy and moral observation, inviting readers to rediscover wonder in commonplace scenes through concise storylets and musical verse.

THE FUTURE

Far in the depths of the dark green sea
A forest of scrawny weeds
Imprisons a giant and holds him fast,
Twine themselves round his knotted hand
And chain him down to their sunless land
Where the waves rush raging past.
His face is hard with deep’ning lines,
And his eyes are glazed with slime,
Yet, deep in his heart there grows a hope
That he will be freed by time.
He is the God of Things to Be,
Chained to the floor of the thoughtless sea.