Dichotomy

Whenever serendipity occurs,
 or opposite, misfortunes seem some snare,
 to count this fate makes luckless folk despair;
both part of greater plan The Lord confers.
The parable, instruction’s tale recurs,
 requires dispensed with some parental flair,
 to teach not what, but how to think – compare –
the first scleroses as the mind inters.
  The child may be the father of the man,
  that if development proceeds to plan,
   then man may be the father of the child  –
   a contradiction, but the words not wild –
    the former shuns parental influence,
    counts us autodidacts, possessed of sense.