Lachesis

This is the middle poem of a three-poem set that started with "Clotho" and ends with "Atropos"...the names of the Ancient Greek mythological Fates. Lachesis was "the Apportioner", the one who decided how long the thread of your life would be.

Lachesis

how much time am I left?
how much thread is on the wheel?
will it matter in the ether
what was feeling, what was real?

did I make a mess for purpose
that was crippled by my pride?
did I take just once an earnest soul
to stand beside, as bride?

will I master still the riddle
or will words yet be unbound
and the loss be all that matters
when the ledgers are then found?

will I fail to end this stanza
or stand to see all pass?
will I live to be an ancient tree
of perish with the grass?



William F. DeVault. all rights reserved.