One might say strictly by accident
but is it really? is any of it not instead
merely the result of choices made
directions taken
knowledges acquired
preferences formed
or even still as some (not I)
like to say meant to be as if
each small thing the stubbing of a toe
the finding of a familiar face at the
Salvation Army Thrift Store
the turning left rather than right
are all somehow ordained, fated
therefore feted as some kind of
Perfect Order putting each of us
squarely where we belong at any given moment?
There are no accidents some (not I) will say
so certain so serious so firm but I believe
I will leave room for chaos chance choice
even courtesies of the divine in my makeshift
cosmology of the bittersweet ways of this world.