Fatalia

                I
A Fortune gave a chance
To man, who couldn`t "sense
And taste" the wealthy life.

So She proposed a deal
To make his old dreams real,
But first to hold a five

Of different obstacles.
And man accepted calls
(Such wagers were so rife).

                II
His life became disaster:
First, angels took his sister,
What made him wreck and sad.

Then spirits with ill fames
Committed to the flames
All property he had.

His wife betrayed him,
Did not recant the sin.
That issue made him mad.

                III
At last the Fortune had
A really evil fad:
She wanted to deprive

Of very good old friend.
It was no chance to mend
A hole in his life.

And though he got the richness,
He felt so lone, showed weakness
And then he stopped to strive.

               IV
He gave up! What a shame!
So he had lost this game,
Cause now he was hopeless.

His heart would stop to sing
And then his head would lean,
Confronted with the death.

It meant his soul was sold
And went to underworld,
And priest had hold the mess.

14th, February 2007




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