Sam Pete - Just Yield

There are forty-two
Taking my test on Shakespeare
I see a hand go up
I walk over

“What’s it, ” I ask
Sir, “What’s Fate?
Should I
Write the whole story
Of Romeo and Juliet
Or should I just write on Fate? ”
“It’s that
Which we don’t
Have control over....
Write on the role of Fate, ” I explain.

“It’s all planned,
F o r e o r d a i n e d, ”
I tell myself.

How I used to think
In my younger days
That I can control Fate
Wrest it out, direct, execute

Better sense prevails, now
Just y i e l d.

Sam Pete

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