Fight through storms

You can sometimes rub your eyes
until you realise
this world’s a slideshow of surprise.

Chanting the rugged prayers,
carrying what few can bear
through weeks and months and years.

A reactor simmering bright
pulsates a charge of dreams
as you your book rewrite.

You rise like Lazarus from dens of death:
like sunny air drives fusts of fiend,
like squalls of laughter wipe a tear,
rays of hope through clouds of fear

The forest stag detracking roads
is vanished out of sight
like Icarus’ fearless flight.

Time doth tick, the sun’s on lease,
burn until your will can breathe.
Rein, run, jump lest its late,
o’er triple bars of iron fate.