PostsChallengesPortalsAuthorsBooks
Sign Up
Log In
Posts
Challenges
Portals
Authors
Books
beta
Sign Up
Search
Challenge
Challenge of the Week CCXXIX
Write a short piece about a narrow escape. Story or poem. 25 big, fat bucks to the winner. Go.
Profile avatar image for GerardDiLeo
GerardDiLeo

Eye of the Needle vs Humps

No problem for the unhumped

My humps explain

My difficulties getting through

The hump I carry for each sin

The hump I profit for my avarice

The humps grown in disloyalties

Lick the end of Clotho's thread with a forked tongue

Still creates a taper for threading her spindle

While Lachesis salivates

The eye of the needle accommodates

But only so far as Atropos' decision

And my fate matures

The shape of destiny is a landscape

Of humps on the horizon in stark relief

To the sunset we all ride off into, through contracting needles' eyes

Iris-out and fade-to-black

There's always room for fluid hope

When leaving the humps behind