Destiny
/At the end
Of a long, hard, winding road
Lies a place:
Destiny
Some say that point
Is inevitable
Unchangeable
Irrevocable
But if that be true
Do we have no choice?
No power
To determine our fate?
Do our intentions and words and actions
Make no difference
Have no impact
Carry no consequence
On a predetermined fate?
Is there no reward for “good”
No accounting of “evil”?
Is judgement on our life rendered
Before we have lived it?
Or is Destiny, judgment at all?
Or simply an end
To a physical plane of existence
Rather than some “prize”
Or “punishment”?
Regardless whether Destiny
Be a predetermined fate
Judgmental
Or simply Death
There is one constant:
As we travel life’s road
Towards its inevitable conclusion
Good works matter
For if Destiny be preordained
Good works benefit the world around us
And Life is the better for it
Yet if fate be judgmental
A sentence passed on life as lived
Good works accrue worth
As gold against dross
And if Destiny be nothingness
Then mortal existence is Everything
And, again, good works benefit us all
As we face the challenges of this life
Some say
It is not the destination
But the journey
That is its own reward
So then too
May we say that we should not live for Destiny
But for each other
For surely a worthy life lived
Counts at its end
And as it is lived
Thus being a goal we should aspire to
Called not “destiny”
But “legacy”
“Humanity”
And “Love”
By Mike Turner
From: United States
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