Note to Ares

This is from The Final Chapter of The Chronicles of Diana Marsson

Oh what a tangled web we weave,

when with the fabric of Time we do intercede.

If you compare Time to a book,

the future’s the sequel, the past can be read with a look.

When playing in Time, one thing you must recall

change the past – you could change it all.

One tiny event many seem to be innocent

but with time, it may have been significant

For one event leads into another

Change one thing, the result would alter

the sequence of events leading to your present

so that when you return, it you may resent.

The first incursion was part of Hera’s call.

To get rid of Herc’s meddling once and for all.

The second seemed at time a good bet

To let Herc see Clark, the son he’d not yet met.

And now my dear, I’ve come to conclude

That you were right when you said, with Time we must once more intrude.

For things are not going as they should

You can fix it, my love, I know you could.

If you return to the day He entered my sight

Stop him, send him back, everything will be right.

And when you succeed, you’ll have what you wanted

You and I’ll be together, forever, unhaunted

By the ghosts of this future’s past

We’ll have eternity, we’ll have a blast.