Challenge
Challenge of the Week CCXXIX
Write a short piece about a narrow escape. Story or poem. 25 big, fat bucks to the winner. Go.
Eye of the Needle vs Humps
No problem for the unhumped
My humps explain
My difficulties getting through
The hump I carry for each sin
The hump I profit for my avarice
The humps grown in disloyalties
Lick the end of Clotho's thread with a forked tongue
Still creates a taper for threading her spindle
While Lachesis salivates
The eye of the needle accommodates
But only so far as Atropos' decision
And my fate matures
The shape of destiny is a landscape
Of humps on the horizon in stark relief
To the sunset we all ride off into, through contracting needles' eyes
Iris-out and fade-to-black
There's always room for fluid hope
When leaving the humps behind
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