Destiny ordained the quiet life for him
Destiny pushed him towards a secluded beach in Alone town
Destiny whispered lullabies to his blood and told him to smile
Destiny simply asked him to be forgotten by History.

Hope told him there were no rewards in heaven
Hell, Hope canceled all orders for an afterlife
Hope shook his dreams with vague tremors
Hope plunged him into sweet novelties.

Fortune stalked him from among the bulrushes
Fortune sang otherworldly melodies through the reeds
Fortune lifted him from the brink of extinction
Fortune swung him upon the ropes of ecstasy.

7 billion chests rising and falling
7 billion hearts pumping like there's no tomorrow,
defying time.
Our breath mingles
the choked struggles of a coal-miner
the long draughts of the drunken stroller
we share the common thread of existence.
Your pasts are varied and rich
and yet our paths are not so different.
You and I we trace destinies that are parallel
even if for a little while.
Un ratito.

Signs and Omens

Sanity might be
to see signs and omens
and recognize the difference between the two.
Causative correlations
Passive associations
The which is which.
My head hurts today.
A homeless man on a bus made a sad attempt
at weaving fictitious subtexts into someone else's conversation.
What a piece of work is man:
that he may construct patterns out of the litany of his own nation
and yet not stop at the border of the undiscovered country.
Can we help but delve deeper into the patchwork of reality
hoping to find infinite fractals of order?
What arbitrary deity draws the line of structure at "Here and no further"?
Internally and externally we find peace and position in society
by drawing multi-coloured threads between the pegs of events
and yet, someday, will we pick up a wholly unnecessary spool
and overwhelm the map of reality with our prophecies?

The falling raindrops outside my window shiver
when struck by the piano's chords,
a quiver of recognition of the cathedral they recently saw in the blue depths,
when they surged with the waves of the ocean a thousand miles away.