Predetermined Fate

(Reincarnation by Ethenae @ deviantart.com)

 

 

~ Predetermined Fate ~

 

What begins this course -

our life, the paths we choose,

are the choices ours?

Or are they specific to a predetermined future

laid out by the hands of Fate

and we just step into them nicely

because it's what we were born to do?

 

Look around - where do you belong?

We don't know the birthdate of our souls

we live in borrowed bodies

only knowing this time we were born into

but nothing of where we've been before, or when,

or where our souls will travel to after our bodies are gone.

 

You seem familiar, but we haven't met before.

A land I've never seen speaks to me.

A place I've lived forever, does not resonate within me.

My mind does not know why these things are so

but perhaps my soul does.

 

We strive to find purpose in life

but what if, as we seek to find a purpose in this life

it is the next one that is destined to have the greatest impact?

 

Perhaps when our time is up here,

(whether we've lived a long life or a child barely three)

we were just making a pit stop

waiting as the stars align for our next phase 

and we go again - same soul, different body

 

we remember nothing

feeling only the occasional vague sense of déjà vu

 

maybe there's a reason for that.

 

 

(c) Dahlia Ramone:  February 25, 2018

 

  

 

This was written for Blogophilia

"Bye" Week topic (choose your own): Write about reincarnation

 

Bonus Prompts (choose your own):

 

Hard (2 pts):  Use a song lyric by Dream Theater

("Look around, where do you belong" from The Answer Lies Within)
(First line in second stanza)

 

Easy (1 pt):  Mention the word "Fate"