Fate Does Not Equate with Destiny

And luck’s got nothing to do with it either

Chance encounters with yesterday’s supermoon (author’s photos)

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a chance encounter
perhaps synchronicity
now one does their part
still, one cannot account for
free will’s butterfly effect

that’s another side of chance

double-down soft sixteen into a six
every result remains possible
player pulls a prince
dealer reveals ten in the hole
player's heart races with drumbeats of hope
dashed when dealer pulls a five

played the odds correctly
just didn’t work out

chance has nothing to do with luck
the latter — there’s no such force in nature
just a human concoction for cause and effect among chaos
as bunk as their karma
rather than accepting they lack control

This post has flickered in the split screens of my pinball brain for a few weeks. Since September 17th, to be precise. On the 16th, my friend

Thomas Plummer

published his poem, The Choices…