Prognostication

The Oracle speaks

and we rush to fulfill 

our destiny 

he conveys to us

the desires of the gods

but why do they not match

with my desires 

when my emotions 

slop inside of me 

like sea water. 

All 

these

unendurable wishes

and still the prophecies

sunder our small hopes

and rend our hearts

so 

what shall we 

do but listen 

with adulation or longing

and hope that 

the wind will shift

one day

in our favor.

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