Epigram ‘n Aphorism Samwiches

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The Deadline To Outcome

If I do not wander,
how will I find serendipity?
How does chance favor the prepared?

With eyes, we watch,
we wait, like a pot yet to boil.
Chance is unexpected and will require
a stroll from time to time.

But, give it a deadline?
How long until we have to arrive at destiny?
Is fate a desired outcome?

And then, leave it to the spiritual nature of man?
What would God have for me
to explain why things do or do not happen?
We are thankful for this mysterious unknowing?

We need finality to determine if
this outcome or that outcome is satisfactory.
What sports team wager our hearts?
Perhaps, fate is dice in our hands.

We just can’t go gambling through life,
rambling with our head in the clouds,
when we launch into an ordinary story,
our true reality unlike fiction.

What do we meet on our journey?
As I launch into another diatribe,
aim explain musings of a mind in the rambling prose,

hope yearns anchor beauteous thoughts
on some stem, reveal beauty to a world
as yet viewing. These are not true blossoms, but
confused outcasts, corrupted blatherings.

Make sense of the world? Or, just live it?
Somewhere on this journey, my wife left the kitchen,
the cats nap in the sunroom, my children

have never entered this domain to listen.
I'm not sage. I realize, I do this for myself
and maybe my sanity. Or vanity, time will decide.
Time to reheat this coffee, aim again.


35 lines
prose-y freeverse
booze-y freeverse

6.6.21

Writer's Cramp prompt about deadlines
24 hours
no pressure
20 minutes, yes.