Paean

When life is full in my throat,
I pray with an embryonic want.

I hear the needs
of the innocent and dragons,
they do not seem
so different to me.

The plaintive calls of the lost,
the tigers panting bruit
are not so different.

I am what the egg wants.
I want a pulsating engine
that crashes through the tangle
of this worlds face.

I want a hammer-bright orison
to challenge with a shell-breaking voice.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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