The Cruelty of Fate

By With love_Crow

Why do you drink the blood of Juliet's paramour?
Has she not suffered enough by your hand?
Are you not the culprit who handed him the vial?
The blade she had used that is now defiled?

Weren't you there when Odysseus fought
To get home to his wife left at the whim of your mercy
Or when Leonidas bravely fought for his own
With three hundred that stood beside his now empty throne?

Did you laugh when Macbeth fell to the charm
Of three witches boiling with double the strife
Was a smirk at your lips when his tainted crown
From it's perch on his head came tumbling down?

The credence of your crimes are unmatched
For your hands have dealt cards that have overthrown kings
And sacrificed love sick children for you own pleasure
The blood of those spilt I can never quite measure

But your brother Destiny has intervened so
And turned your own merriment against you
You have won the lives of those pawns at a stake
And left room for your sibling to chuckle Checkmate.

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Copyright 2011 With love_Crow
Published on Wednesday, November 23, 2011.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • Kristoff On Monday, December 2, 2013, Kristoff (37)By person wrote:

    Love the references =)

  • dwells On Thursday, November 24, 2011, dwells (4177)By person wrote:

    Best thing I've read today, and thanks for sharing this personification through the ages, most excellent.

  • TyrantAvDetForbannet On Thursday, November 24, 2011, TyrantAvDetForbannet (273)By person wrote:

    Wow welcome to another great poet, good write.

  • Devilish On Thursday, November 24, 2011, Devilish (2633)By person wrote:

    Damn your good... Wow!! It's not your fault that you were born to write... Lol... I love it!! Scholar

  • TyrantAvDetForbannet On Thursday, November 24, 2011, TyrantAvDetForbannet (273)By person wrote:

    yeah definately devilish.

  • A former member wrote: I really like this. I like how you relate different things that happened in history and were made into books to fate.

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