Nostradamus
Some have regarded you as a prognosticator.
Others have considered you a prevaricator.
How far into the future can one person see?
Could you really see what was coming in the sixteenth century?
With your poetic passages known as “quatrains”,
many believe you held the future’s reins.
Your words made your prophecies quite mystical.
However, the language you used was equivocal.
Despite your writings many consider so vague,
compatriots called you a healer who conquered the plague.
However, you could not save your family from death.
The disease took you wife and children’s last breath.
You lived during the renaissance age of men.
It is questionable whether you were a genius or charlatan.
There are many interpretations of what you had to say.
Some debate over the meanings of your quatrains remains today.
Copyright © Robert Pettit | Year Posted 2012
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