Ah! Fate we meet again
The first time
for the last time!
Just kidding!
But seriously
would you like to play a game?
It was Fate that brought us
to this little known vale
over wild forested hills
through the harshest gale
twists and turns
as life is wont to provide
an assist to Fate's great amusement
another way to trip us up
throw us together
perhaps forever
always held back
by our own obstacles
if one path is blocked by roots
then the other is on fire
so we climb the trees
ease out on the branches
going on our separate ways
one path to another as we see
the clearness of them
and they are none the same
for all of us
despite our traveling them together
if for just a while
quickly we go
as we see our escapes
drop down to the loam
race away from the track
never knowing it was still
our path
the only path we knew
the only one we could ever know
so many interconnected ways
all of them watched by Fate
just waiting for us
simply, silently, waiting
for us to look at the trials
tribulations in our path
to lose all our heart
to stop the race
to sit down
and to die
for that is how it happens
dear children
when we stop carrying on
perhaps it is not a loss of heart
not in the end
perhaps it is weariness
when this is no longer a game
and seeing Fate as an old friend
whose hand we reach for
even as the lights grow dim
when there is nothing left to run from
or to run towards
when all has finally come to peace
a peace of our own making
a treaty with Fate
because in them we have trusted
by their very inevitability
that our paths will cross again.