Freewill: Real or Illusion?

Where we'll take birth You decide,

To us Your logic You don’t confide.

Who while here which parents will get,

And where on Earth they’ll them beget,

Our class, religion, gender and race,

Nationality, ethnicity and look of face,

These factors that play such a big role

In shaping our life’s course as a whole,

Over them no control do we possess.

That You decide them shall I confess?

The genes we inherit You also decree,

In this matter, too, we just aren’t free.

Hence, I'm led now to ask this of You:

Is the ‘freewill’ we boast of really true?

I think not quite, and so, maybe I'll say:

You decree our fate all through life’s way.

If this be true, then may the illusion abate

That we are the masters of our own fate.