The Fate of Free Will, Retrospect, and "It Doesn't Matter What You Do, Just Do What You Love."

The Fate of Free Will

   Let your feelings prevail
   Even those with callous intentions
   For what is action without will's tales?
   Wrought from life's many merciful inventions 
   Insensitive to a life frail
6    And full of chance's contention
   But when chance contends with fate
   What is innate?

   Fate is not for everyone
   To some there is nothing more incidental 
   Than fortune and its fun 
12   And if their motion is guided by fate's principals
   Then their motion would be none
   And inconsequential
   What they feel didn't have to be felt
   But feeling helped 

   The rest are resigned to their fortune's path
18   If that pebble in the road becomes a stepping stone
   That you trip over then laugh
   What was preached and promised and always known
   Is that that rail you couldn't grasp
   Because you knew that your hand would miss
   The questions that your sanity would ask
24   Your sanity similarly, couldn't grab

   Neither can be left to chance
   For fate will not let an escape
   Come from a scripted dance
   The tale of the tape
   And how it knows to prance
30   Is trapped in free will's freight
   And what couldn't be known
   Is what what was always shown

   Free will's fun
   Resides in what comes

Retrospect

For the poet far
In front of those who think that
Being old is cool

"It Doesn't Matter What You Do, Just Do What You Love."

   Hey kids! I have a very important message to give
   It doesn't matter what you love to do
   Truly, it won't matter for as long as you live
   Always, always, always do what you love to
   You, young woman, what do you love?
6   "I love to ride bicycles."
   For life you'll wear a cyclist's gloves
   You're going to ride many a-miles
   And young man, for what are you forlorn?
   "I really love to watch my mom cook. I love to cook too."
   A spatula will your hands forever adorn
12   Many happy stomachs are in your future I view
   What about you? And You?
   What do you all love?
   "I love to read!"
   Writer
   "I love basketball!
18   The NBA
   "I love animals!" "Clothing!" "Helping people!"
   Veterinarian! Fashion designer! Nurse!
   "I love to kill things!" "I love to hurt!"

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