Moirai
Clotho — spinning string from staff to spindle —
leathered hands weaving life into each thread,
heroes birthed with shaking fingers nimble,
laying out their lives before a word is said.
Lachesis — always clothed in white — precise
in measurements of heroes’ lives — mighty
eyes with complete control, it is her vice,
for she decides mortals’ destiny tonight.
Atropos — the eldest of three — seizes
a pair of scissors in needlepoint fingers —
bringer of death, it is the end she sees,
causation she breeds — a snip, the trigger.
Goddesses of fate –– not individual —
one woman bending heroes to her will.