Can One Escape The Written Fate? Poem by RIC BASTASA

it is what i believe
and so it must be, and so
it is going to
me,
things always change for the
better
as always claiming the power
of prayer,
say not that i cannot escape the
judgment of fate,
say not, that everything is already
written
and what we have to do is
simply
to open the page and read and
see the pictures and landscapes
posted,
oh, do not be mislead
i do believe in prayers,
the hands that somehow
change
the pictures and the words,
i have a way to escape
what fate has written,
i plea, i beg,
i kneel, i chant

and here's the change
the offer of fate,
your untimely end is suspended
another change is given
another time
love, life,
and immortality....