The Untold Story

When we are born the heavens tell a story.
We don’t know the text, so we fill in the blanks, 
to live it out or to create a new path. Without a plot
to foretell the dangers that come our way,

we trip and dance and love and grieve, 
as details of a life unfold, 
and arguments of free will rise.
We ask ourselves, “to do or not to do” —

a question we face each day, as we 
flow through life’s ups and downs,
then wonder if we still end up, after all the fuss, 
in the place foretold at our birth,
where we were headed all along.

Just as the river meanders,
with new routes created 
by natures unfolding desires,
may it be so— 
that we move along,
to exactly where we need to be.

“The world you are forced to inhabit does not match up to the world.”

Rosemary Breen, Pisces: Horoscope Compatibility

“I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don’t believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get wherever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.”

Morgan Freeman

“What I’m saying is . . . remembering feels like time travel, right? Dreaming works the same way. Well, what if that’s all we have in the first place? Thoughts arranged in time. And we’re free—if we can only learn how—to change those thoughts around all we like. So, no predestination. One world. One ever-changing universe. And we can change it!”

Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

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