Two Prophetic Paths?

 Messages future/past had come to Nostradamus

Casting quatrains of mystery among us, 

with glimmerings from some akashic world

where, among the stars unfurled

a tale is told both future/past

with mystery as to what comes first or last.

I’m just perplexed at this movie screen

that seems so real and yet, a dream

but revealing future acts

as if they were ancient facts

laying quite a puzzle upon my mind

about this riddling mystery called “Time.”

Is it front or is it back?

Is it potential or is it fact?

How a prophet could discern future deeds

performed by men of their own free will,

not determined by some pre-set bill?

On the esoteric side there’s Nostradamus;

I cannot comprehend his role among us.

How could he pen poems of future acts

that turn out to be historical facts

centuries later! Is time a crater?

Back in the Mosaic Book

’t’was written guard angels were assigned

to guard the gates of Edenic mind

so foolish Man. . . never more could

see the the tree of knowledge, evil and the good.

So I surmise these guard angels still do stand

somewhere to obstruct the deeds of destructive Man.

Maybe so that. . . when we had split the atom

we could not repeat the mistake of Adam

and blow this world to smithereens

even though we do strive for Green

which may be, anyway, just a hopeful dream,

if Vlad the Mad gets too flustered

and launches up a big atom-buster.

 

Two prophetic paths diverged in a darkened world

one cloaked in mystery, the other quite unfurled.

Not wanting to travel both

I chose the path of Faithful oath

to tread the path in Daylight;

and though the deep zodiac be bright

I find comfort in deep sleep at night,

sleep that knits the ravel’d sleeve of care

to soothe the souls that in future acts do dare.

Selah.

Glass half-Full