Fickle Finger of Fate

Preterists want back their laurels lost, fingers crossed. Predators pray for their ruling permanence at the rest's cost, fingers crossed. So many fingers, so much paltriness; So soon their crossing, their anagnorises so late. Commanding o'er the entire terrestrial has always been the fickle finger of fate, from which no one can e'er escape, from prehistory up to date. Be you owning mansions grandiosely gilt or holding royal sword's hilt, unaffordable is this finger's slightest tilt----- Power and prestige, worth and wealth, quick as a wink, all sink into silt.