One should not interfere with fate  Ka like a wind  Karma? Fate? Destiny?  A hidden rose,  A shadowed Tower.  The brilliance of all suns,  The darkness of all void.  Time is a face on the water  A face, of your father,  and thy fathers, before thy father  Before Oedipus could write his epic  Oedipus, he who has forgotten  the face of his father  Before Narcissus falls  trying to caress the rose  in the water  beneath the face  of time, and his father   -- thoughts on "The Dark Tower" and Sec One Literature paper