SORCERER 3
We’ll break our seal and thus unpen
Two breeds of vision we may show:
SORCERER 1
The first of these, and you might know
Your fate, engraven by your star-
Which fortune gods permit or bar.
SORCERER 2
But why disturb your dreamy sleeps
To know your death-date daily creeps?
SORCERER 3
It finds us all, and- though you hate it-
Since what must be, shall be, await it.
SORCERER 1
The second brand of prophecy
Is not what will, but what may be.
SORCERER 2
Yet what might not? Our lord can see
These “what-if” figments well as we:
Might not strange soldiers from the waves
Rise forth to claim our sires for slaves,
As, for their footstool, bows our liege,
Exempt from their street-sweeping siege?
SORCERER 3
And yet, might not our lord disband
Such aliens, overcreep our land,
And rig mean regions to his suit,
The mumbling Mayas render mute,
The frostbit northern climes to claim,
And sway the fitful gods to frame
His portrait in a constellation?
What fate might not recast his nation?
Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016 at 3:55 PM UTC
SORCERER 3
We’ll break our seal and thus unpen
Two breeds of vision we may show:
SORCERER 1
The first of these, and you might know
Your fate, engraven by your star-
Which fortune gods permit or bar.
SORCERER 2
But why disturb your dreamy sleeps
To know your death-date daily creeps?
SORCERER 3
It finds us all, and- though you hate it-
Since what must be, shall be, await it.
SORCERER 1
The second brand of prophecy
Is not what will, but what may be.
SORCERER 2
Yet what might not? Our lord can see
These “what-if” figments well as we:
Might not strange soldiers from the waves
Rise forth to claim our sires for slaves,
As, for their footstool, bows our liege,
Exempt from their street-sweeping siege?
SORCERER 3
And yet, might not our lord disband
Such aliens, overcreep our land,
And rig mean regions to his suit,
The mumbling Mayas render mute,
The frostbit northern climes to claim,
And sway the fitful gods to frame
His portrait in a constellation?
What fate might not recast his nation?
From my play in verse, thefloralwar.com
