“Deus ex machina” (God From Machine) is a Latin translation of a phrase that ancient Romans used to describe the way that masked actors (who represented deities) appeared during theatrical plays held in ancient Greece. These deities usually remained on an elevated platform that was hidden from the general audience during the first two acts of the play. Once the play’s plot reached its final climax (usually during the third act), these actors representing deities were lowered down from their hidden heavenly perch by ropes and pulleys to the stage below so that they could sort out the complex problems that had developed among ‘mere mortals’ who lived on the earth’s surface.

This poem asks life's most important question, "Who (or what) is operating the pulleys of fate"?