Seven Lives For Living

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Thirty was when my life started

Thirty was the age

Like Logan's Run 

That the Satanic Verses

That is/was LDS policy

Moved a man from the Singles Congregation

To the General Population

If you dont marry in LDS theology

You dont go to the highest level

Of the Celestial Pyramid Scheme

And while five years before I got out

I realized then and there

Defining my life

By who I married (if anyone)

Or how I worked

In one meaningless technical writing contract

After another

Was a recipe for regret and failure

So while I still dated 

And still worked

I came up with something more than a bucket list

And less than a lifetime commitment

Seven lives I could live

With all the time I had left

The first was roleplaying games

I made and sold seven supplements

Peaking in the Fate of Inglemia

The things I have done amd seen

I was and am a player of games

And my Pinnacle

Was gaining the respect of my peers 

The Second Life was Writing

Seven Novels would I write

Seven now almost done

Nine thousand words away

The final novel in Inglemia itself

A lifetime worth for certain sure

Emmit is a side bet

A lifetime ironically greater

Than Rhombus himself

And here I sought to prove my worth

Also by the respect of my peers

Until SFWA proved it had no worth in my eyes

By hiring two sociopaths to judge my work

Unjustly

And no one one is my peer but me

As it should be

As it should be

In this life I retire like Stephen King

(Not that I am that good mind)

But rather my retirement

Is 'retirement'

But I still write five to 12 more books

At my own pace

Just because I can

The third life is movies and producing

I have done three worthy ones

Next year after a ten year hiatus

After healing from my Ex

I am doing the documentary 

The Sins of Silicon Valley

And will then do three more

Maybe seven plays as well

Who knows what Tom Drake will do

The fourth live is Project Management

A feather in my cap at the start

By completing my masters in the same

After being drummed out

Of (for me) a nigh impossible masters 

In Molecular Biology

Three projects have I done

Worthy of a Master Accomplishment

Mentoring, Biographers  (donish) and Inspiring

I do not know if four more await

Of this life

I am most unsure

For I will know a great work

When I see it

I am two thirds of the way there

Maybe more happen

Maybe they dont

The fifth life is my spiritual path

Seven roles in time

My path is my own

My path is my own

Five of Seven roles fulfilled

Two to go in time

Two to go in time

The Sixth is Servant Leadership

I am just getting started

A quest for each shard

We will see what we will see

The seventh is undefined

And may never be lived

For a man should always aspire to more

One that they can do before their last breat

Never settling always moving

We will see what we will see

We will see what we will see