Destiny

Andrew Kamal
ThePoeticPharaoh
Published in
3 min readJul 29, 2023
Photo by Kurt Cotoaga on Unsplash

Narrow road

Yeah

Have you ever wondered what is your destiny

You ever sat and thought to yourself

Destiny

How about that

What is truth

What am I meant to do in this life

Will I walk and talk with angels

Or will I sit with the sinners

How come it feels like there is no in between

Oh wait, the devil is playing tricks on me

Temptation is rampart

My thoughts are sporadic

Spiraling

A bit intrusive

God forgive me

But I’m asking

And wondering

About

My destiny

You see, I see something I’m supposed to do

A bit hard

Got lots of plans

Highway is narrow

Blessed are you

When others revile you

And persecute you

For your reward is great in heaven

Well, I haven’t been persecuted enough yet

I stub my toe and sit in agony for five minutes

Every little thing and I’m emotional

Is avoiding getting my hands covered in Cheetos

And waiting until midnight for a slice of pie, self-control

Listen, I apparently got a friend in Sweden

Well, he may be in Berlin now

He tells me he exercises more than me

I don’t doubt it

Have you seen me on the treadmill lately

A rare sight to behold

Also, why am I so soft

Can’t I run without a machine

He can do better spiritually

Maybe tone it down on the partying

The guy is amazing with a calculator

He analyzes stocks on a TI

Wonder if he can ever beat Soros

Hey, listen

I know I need to diet a bit more

Hit the gym

Every once and a while, I hit punching bags

Thought I was gonna be a boxer

You wanna see some pics

Because I want attention

Ever heard of Nostradamus

He was supposed to go to medical school

He flunked out

He spoke confidently and vaguely

Then everybody thought he was some sort of prophet

It is wild what people think just because you have a long neck

Actual prophets were treated much worse

Look at Jonah in the old testament

He thought he could hide from God

Bro, he is God

I can’t even hide these days from my boss

What is wrong with you

You think you were just gonna sit behind some chest

No wonder sailors thrown you out

Everybody is asking others to be so nice

Like Mother Teresa

Well, have you heard what this Albanian did to Kolkata

Look all I’m saying is people need to be more transparent

I sit and I wonder and my voices distract me

Voices of self-doubt

One time at church while everybody was praying

I was thinking about my frozen mountain dew in the car

What is wrong with me

Then later I told this priest in front of everyone

Hey, I was just being honest

I get easily distracted

But I’m a joke sometimes

Jokes like these are why nobody even talks to me

My friend Youssef is out here wondering what is up

So-called, because I expect him to maybe betray me

Maybe not

I still have to go do what I have to do

Why so many trust issues

People are weird

I saw some beautiful girls staring at me

But talking to a girl so I didn’t even wave I guess

I’m trying to keep things on the down low

But man, if this girl betrays me, look at all the cute ladies I could have known

Models with huge smiles

Well, maybe even super models at this point

Who cares

Don’t overthink and it will probably go great

Mind is going back to past memories

Decent memories

Man I was an awkward kid

Don’t even get me started about uni

Why do I focus on people

I’m too ignorant these days

Nowadays trusting people almost feels Russian roulette

Wasn’t I supposed to be Andrew the great

Andrew the Copt

What does that even mean

Copt seems nowadays how I identify myself

I’m a myth, a story, and a legend

You can tell by the fact that I’m typing on some couch

Rather than going out into the world and making a change

Destiny

What will that bring for me

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Andrew Kamal
ThePoeticPharaoh

The dude with many different talents *Coder *Inventor *Startup Advisor *Coptic Activist *Sponsored Athlete *Blogger *Conservative *Researcher *Miaphysite