Poem by R.M. Dolin
The Consequence of Fate
The problem is dear one,
we never really get to know
where fate ends
and consequence begins.
Is turning left down
a grocery store isle
where we meet our soulmate
a matter of fate?
Probably not,
it’s hard to imagine
kismet cares
how we shop
unless the something that happens
in the fresh produce isle,
was meeting the person
who came before
the person we’re with now,
someone you still sometimes remember
when lonely winds echo
sentiments of your sadness.
From chapter 7 of the R.M. Dolin novel, “An Unsustainable Life – The Book of Darwin.” Darwin considers the extent to which a person’s life is driven by fate versus free will and how that translates into consequence.
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