I dissipate boundaries, eat away the hills
Wipe out your youth, break it down at will
A master of erosion, permanence I do hate
My name is entropy, dictator of all fate
Whatever you build, or creation has made
I’m already within, to make sure order fades
A force of nature, an inescapable truth
Go do the math, I’m in every square root
Encoded into reality, to eradicate design
I’ll randomise the cosmos, given enough time
Before you condemn, I’m life’s antihero
Without my chaos, all sums would total zero
By
David Kavanagh
Please don t randomise me.
I d like to feel I was chosen:
Pre-selected for only you
Rather than landed in your lap
After a lucky spin
On the roulette wheel of life
Don t make me feel I was a chance:
That our paths crossed by accident.
I d feel more comfortable knowing
That the Fates had a hand
In introducing us to each other
According to a bigger Plan.
Please make me feel special and wanted:
That there is a Higher Purpose to us:
That our lives are not dependant
On the roll of a dice or turn of a card.
I like to think of us as two halves
Brought together to make a whole.
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