Voice of One Jerry Buckley (08/07/1957 / Tennessee, USA)

Rota Fortunae thou most capricious of lovers
You've tickled me before with your fickle favors
Spinning yet another everyman in your wheeled gyration
Constant only in turning - in change and variation

Wheel of Fortune spinning - lifted I ride a cloud
En glorior elatus; while exhaulted then I became proud
Until flipped once more, spinning mortified in descent
Only to be abandoned - To be tortured as I repent

Rota Fortuna - who maketh the mighty to mumble
Your charms captivate and us give us cause to stumble
Evidence our heroic Samson, Nero, Nebuchadnezzar
Alexander the Great or magnanimous Julius Caesar

Lady of the wheel's turning - diminished I melt away
while yet another contestant shall be exalted for today
Let he who is at the summit not neglect his goodly deeds
While his status and well-being compound his many needs

Lady Fortuna Rosa - glows in masked jealousy
She rides rough-shod over every offered chivalry
Brought low - has she - many a proud lord and king
And many others whom to a heathen ruin did bring

Fortuna ever smiling hides detached behind a veil
Fortuna so beguiling - as she assures us all is well
Today; then spitefully turns treacherous tomorrow
Thus out of happiness, acquaints everyman with sorrow

'Voice of One' @ Jerry Buckley