Summoning Power

Summoning power, courage To wage against torrents Those unsympathetic to my cause My faith At times shaky and rhetorical Bleeds through the cracks of despair The porous granite of frustration Breathing, injecting life Where only desolation savors Permanence and ownership Stronger men Have been whittled to rare pulp Weaker men Have given up at the earliest signs Of misty dawns I must be either Blindly unrealistic Pried from sanity's bosom Or severely convinced Of my abilities, zeal and destiny That reason only knows one course Through the poisonous thorns Fecal malfeasance Explosive diversity And culpable agony Arriving at Surviving for My own brand of glory. (5/13/09)