John Hamilton Poet Dramatic Monologue

Fate Or Choice Which Controls Your Life

Fate or choice which controls your life?

So you believe in fate do you?

Is that your fate or 

do you choose to believe it?

Are you destined to believe in destiny?

So then, 

if fate predetermines

everything we do, and the result,

then really ...

there is no such thing as free will...

yet we know... 

we were created with free will

how do we know?

try training a child to obey

is it easy 

or do they 

have their own will?

ok ok... so

do you wear a seat belt?

why?

because statistics prove

that wearing seat belts 

saves lives!

So if someone chooses (note the choice of wording)

to ignore the law

and does not 

wear a seat belt 

and is killed

was it fate?

or just a bad choice?

When you are sick 

do you go to the doctor?

Why?

Because your chances 

of getting better are higher 

if... 

you seek medical treatment.

So if someone has a cold 

and it worsens

and it becomes pneumonia 

and he chooses (note the choice of wording)

not to seek treatment

and dies...

is it fate? 

or bad choices?

In a time of war 

is it safer on the front lines 

or in your comfortable home?

Yet, it is said that a soldier died

because it was his time, his fate,

really?

Was it destiny 

or was it 

a consequence 

of his choice?

So do you believe in fate?

Is it your fate?

Or is it your choice?

If you choose to believe 

that your future 

is in fates hands

then fate requires you to

not wear a seat belt

not to seek medical attention

and to sign up

for the front lines 

of the next war

because it 

doesn't matter anyway

you're in fates hands

right?

Or do you have a choice?

John Derek Hamilton
April 27, 2016

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Funom Makama April 30, 2016 at 2:44 PM Lovely and so precised to the heart with a very good linking understanding to the mind. A definite 7

Lin Lane April 28, 2016 at 7:59 AM WRONG! Your write mirrors exactly the point I was trying to convey in a recent poem. You more clearly expressed the importance of being responsible for our own lives through the gift Jehovah gave us...free will. John Hamilton April 28, 2016 at 10:07 AM Thanks Lin