Que Sera
written by: Stephen Kingsnorth
His workshop was in Coventry,
the city blitzed during the war,
his family amongst those killed.
Emerging decades afterwards,
Enigma, Nazi code machine,
had been cracked and raid known about.
Maintaining secrecy was all;
decision made, Godiva ride,
for laid bare as the city paid.
And now devised, new time engine,
machine that made Time Lords of us,
so we would know and could avert?
The future brought to present time,
a gift unwrapped if so desired,
disease where interventions cure?
But who is ‘us’ and who are ‘we’,
as key too, be that future will,
when time stands still, tomorrow now?
In his clock hands, as ne’er before
the fate of more than Coventry;
so that is where he sent himself,
forever silent, Que Sera.
NOTE:
Based on the Prompt – The Clockmaker’s Rebellion
By 13th-century legend, Godiva rode naked (though covered by her long hair) through the city of Coventry in protest at taxation, and statues and images commemorate her there.
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