Christen Foster Poet Free verse

I am Lightning

I am Lightning
I am lightning,?Spontaneous,?A powerful force of nature.
I split the sky open?With a voice of fire,?A flash that refuses silence.
I do not ask permission?From clouds or from earth—?I arrive, I strike, I am gone,?Yet never forgotten.
I dance between seconds,?A pulse of brilliance,?Fierce and un-contained.
I am chaos made visible,?Energy given shape,?A reminder that even the heavens?Cannot always hold themselves together.
I am lightning—?Fleeting,?But impossible to ignore.

I am Lightning
I am lightning—?not quiet,?not careful,?not waiting my turn.

I don’t arrive gently.
I don’t knock.
I don’t ask, “Is this a good time?”

a rupture in the sky’s composure,
a crack in the polite conversation of clouds.

I take the moment.
because I don’t shrink
I am release.

So don’t mistake my passing
for weakness.

Every flash is a declaration:
I was here.
I am here.
I will not be unseen.

And even when I disappear,
I leave the sky different.
Then it was before I arrived

All in all when I shift between the 
Clouds I come alive.

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