Does your past

Predestine your future?

Not in the least.

Grace continually

Rescues us

From such indignity

Yoruba, like many languages, is complex and wonderful. One word can have multiple meanings in both mother and adopted tongues.

I'm guessing
This is how
Melchior, Gaspar
And Balthasar
Would've breezed
Into town
Circa 2021.

Much as I love using quotes, I do see the inherent danger in extracting the odd sentence from a body of carefully written text.

Awake.

No simple

Past tense here

Nor delusions of

Politically correct

Grandeur.

Awake.

Insidious is a word that describes many an action nowadays. Or perhaps I should say the lack of any…