Destiny

Destiny
Since our lives were interlaced in a very tangled knot of anger and bliss, there was only way to solve it somewhere else. Commit it to lots: if it is heads we’ll get married, if it is tails we’ll part forever. The coin was thrown. It clinked, revolved and stopped. Heads. We stared on it in perplexity.
After that we said unanimously: «Will we try again? »

Our lives had become so entangled into a knot of Gordian proportions that, bar destroying them with a sword, we had to search elsewhere for a solution. We would toss for it: if it was heads we would get married; if it was tails we would part forever. The coin was thrown. It clinked, revolved and then stopped. Heads. We stared at it in perplexity.

Then both proclaimed in unison, "Let's try again."