"Shakespeare's Fell Hand, Defaced"

I am not fully aware and I am not fully educated but I do enjoy Shakespeare and especially appreciate his delicious poems...such tasty morsels of thought that have survived through centuries, just as he had desperately hoped for when composing, "The Spoils of Time", a favorite of mine. 
Shakespeare's fear and distraction of the future and all he could foresee threatened the muse of his divine inspiration, but luckily for you and me, the muse won the battle, allowing his 'love', his artwork, to surface in his mind and travel through time to eventually become part of the wisdom of yours and mine.
This kind of eternity is a possibility for every artist and we are ALL artists. 
From my not fully aware and not fully educated perspective, I imagine and feel that we are living the days that he foresaw in that poem and if we are wise, we will let the muse of our own 'love' win the battle against our fear and distraction of the shadowy future and what we now foresee.  We can choose what spoils we leave behind for future generations who arrive with the same curiosities and fears, whether that's the eternal brass of bullets in the earth that Shakespeare foresaw or the eternal wisdom and entertainment of our words. 
Destruction isn't inevitable, it's a choice, just like peace.
It's the same warfare of the mind that Shakespeare experienced, but it's everyone's, always.  It's the past, the present and the future.  I believe that we all have the opportunity to live forever through the spoils of the 'love', the artwork, the peace that we inspire within ourselves and leave behind.  We are each the muse, just as we are each the Prophet of our own thought and future. May the world be patient for our 'love's' inspiration to take hold and change the distraction of what we now reluctantly foresee.

On a lighter note, I bet Shakespeare won that battle of the mind every time by reciting his own, "Exhortation to Courage" out loud to himself.  It sure works for me!  Powerful, very useful stuff, no matter the battle you are facing! I highly recommend it to anyone feeling cornered-ish in any way.  Works like magic(o: