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Villanelle: Doubt Not Who Is Master of Your Conditioned Fate

Villanelle : Doubt not who is Master of your conditioned Fate Doubt not who is Master of your conditioned Fate Ask only why your actions lead down the wrong path All else makes for doubt doubt only if Fate's innate Neither Past nor Future time exist inchoate All and everything's rolled in ever Present birth Doubt not who is Master of your conditioned Fate Are alll lives exemplary and of equal rate Or only those fated to be humoured by Death All else makes for doubt doubt only if Fate's innate Is Life just a gift of the gods or Man's mandate The Buddha's metaphor of bleeding arrow worth Doubt not who is Master of your conditioned Fate Those who preach living Life to the full suffocate Carpe Diem is fine if you can afford mirth All else makes for doubt doubt only if Fate's innate No trace of passage on earth makes one contemplate If lives we leave behind acts of blind psychopath Doubt not who is Master of your conditioned Fate All else makes for doubt doubt only if Fate's innate © T. Wignesan - Paris, November 13, 2018

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