Chimeras become possibilities only after the breaking and shattering of old chains. Look at how they tear into ominous clouds without fear; witness how their freedom wings take them anywhere they want to go. @reenadossauthor

To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend? I suppose I ought to have realize it's ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

The past is an old armchair in the attic the present an ominous ticking sound and the future is anybody's guess.