Determinism

Streaming sunlight; such soothing balm,

transient buffer - welcome all the same.

As passing clouds prove omnipotent;

brutally battering dispossessed spirit.

Equivocating reason offers no refuge;

unable to triage calcifying contempt.

Accumulation of misdeeds, or misattribution?

Must steadfast hold to the latter.

Else sense of self, bedevilled, takes flight,

exposing growing gravitational void within;

chasm borne by perpetual echoes, of that…

unrecognised, unknown and unreconcilable.

Yet providence found in fleeting illumination,

momentary clarity pierces foreboding fog.

Past acts; real or confected: need not matter.

As they could not have been otherwise.