The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

The most important task, dear one

Asks for no favors from fate.

It challenges you upfront,

Completely indifferent to your state.

It laughs at your helplessness 

as you're presented with a choice

Between the devil and the deep blue sea,

Leaving no dearth of indecision in your voice.

All outcomes leave you battered and broken 

Except the very rare, clandestine one.

Guilt floods and drowns those who made a choice

and those who didn't likewise, dear one.

There is one among a million however,

As told by the foreteller of prophecies.

Who falls for no tricks

Defeating the harbinger of catastrophies.

That wise one eviscerates the trickster, dear one

Who with riddling choices had created a menagerie.

His pieces turn to stone, widening the safe land,

Its boundaries breachable by neither the Devil nor the Deep Blue Sea.