1//The Question
What if the future is not waiting
but a seed already in hand?
I asked myself,
and silence returned a challenge:
Live now, not later.



2//The Craft
Lines of code like brushstrokes,
gameplay loops beating
like chambered hearts.
An artistic vision is not leisure,
it is fire contained,
flaring into characters,
worlds breathing in borrowed light.



3//The Answer
To retire is not to withdraw,
but to create without chains.
I do not want escape,
but immersion
to leave behind not ashes,
but architectures of play,
worlds proud enough to last.



4//The Present
So I begin,
before the grave interrupts.
Not counting coins,
but counting hours of wonder
my retirement is here,
alive in the making.