DESTINY

Certain things are fixed, written.

Do we only recognize them in retrospect?

The stuff beyond karma and contrivance,

or belief.  

Godstuff.

It was thought this might be substance -

a quark, muon, something strange;

then that maybe it was an act,

born out of Mind, divine or otherwise - it looked like hellish punishment.

Like That - not this.

It was awesomely inscrutable,  certainly inarguable

 - as those long ago brothers knew.

Best to step down from thrones

and knowing-it-all

to the destitute wilderness outside:

and accept, submit -

before the terror and wonder 

of every breath.