Challenge
Challenge of the Week XCIII
A Twist of Fate. Write about the themes of destiny, fate, or inevitability. Does destiny exist? Does it contradict free will? Anything along these lines is fair game. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
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DEAD OR ALIVE
Destiny? Don’t make me laugh
because if I start, I’ll never stop!
No:
forget destiny, darling.
The Fates are a fairytale
and the only inevitability
of this existence
is death.
It’s the heartbreaking fact
of the human condition:
that the best of us
end the same way as the worst—
still of heart,
unresponsive,
ready for the slab, the ground, the oven;
unknowing.
We all need to live while we’re alive
and without such awful resignation
to some ill-imagined fate.
Yes;
live your life while you’re alive, love,
because if you’re not living,
you’re dying.
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