A stroke of silence

touched my soul

and the leaves of my heart

shiverd lightly.

The thread of life

enlivened awhile

and with wide-spread wings

I flew up high.

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A few words about the title of the poem.

Atropos was one of the three Fates or Moirai in Greek Mythology. Her other sisters were Klothos (spins) and Lachesis (draw out).

Atropos represented the past, all things we are born with, and was irreversible. She stood for the unavoidable, fated, severe, and dogmatic. As the oldest, Atropos was the most unscrupulous, and without any hesitation, she cut the thread of Mortal’s life.

According to Hesiod’s Theogony, the Fates / Moirais were daughters of Erebus (Darkness) and Night, but in the same work, he mentioned them also as daughters of Zeus and Themis. Platon refers to them as daughters of Ananke. In Roman Mythology, the three Fates are daughters of Uranus and Gaia.