Unchosen None

In the fantasy movies
A favorite name is One,
As in, The One, as in you,

Our central protagonist,
Ordinary as you seem.
This plot will show you’re The One.

A peculiar concept, one,
In practice a contronym—
On the one hand, unity,

Whole, entire, and unbroken—
And yet, singularity,
Something unique from the mass,

From the many, sheared, alone,
Just one, just the one, The One.
Know what the plot really wants?

The hinge of all equations,
The only one of its kind,
The None. No casting The None.