All Things Come To Pass Poem by Sadiqullah Khan

What a guest! Retorts Cicero.
Julius Caesar, wise of wise;
Good conversation is the garnish,
On the meal served in silver.
A sensibility to avoid, the necessities.
Literature, -what else could be finery,
Or a poem on a sweet tongue, - a desert.

What Ides! - Ides of March,44 BC
The Ides of March had not come,
It had not gone either.
The prophecy's adamant to be true.

'καὶ σύ, τέκνον; ' ‘You too, child'
‘Thou Brutus? ' 'Et tu, Brute? '
Succumbed to stabs
Blinded by own blood,
Or just covered his face.

All things come to pass,
All events, be love and guile
Shall be played, to the stage,
Assigning motives, hidden and revealed.

Sadiqullah Khan
Islamabad
June 5,2014.

-On March 15 (the Ides of March) ,44 BC, Caesar was attacked by a group of senators, including Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar's close friend. Caesar initially resisted his attackers, but when he saw Brutus, he supposedly spoke those words' 'Et tu, Brute? ' and resigned himself to his fate.

Death of Caesar by Vincenzo Camuccini
Vincenzo Camuccini, 'Morte di Cesare',1798, @ Wikipedia