Timeless

The light comes on and my heart ablaze A man named Chang completes catharsis One cross of power brought genesis To enlarge one's coast in adding another The results rang resolute from Great Beyond Dreams of majestic meetings imagined for ions At last hills trodden once above my grasp Rain falls soft and wind whisks my back Pete and Andre plays Stars and Stripes again The lights go out and my spirit sinks Hopes deferred many years hath made me sick One ton of fears knocked me down As many pounds brought me to my knees To no avail would go such pleas Nightmares of friends never made Once again pull the covers over my head The skies spell the impending shame Tiger Tim's waiting to be tamed Betwixt and between Big Ben's tick and tock Changing of the guard concerning one's worldly lot The fortnight's feast of wunderkinds needs an Abraham at the table A mere Chaldean Yank in waiting willing and able From a trespasser and a common gravedigger To a server and a courtly centre of attention As content to punchlines given and unrelenting to the taking of no prisoners Opposing forces are met as imposters in the face of ecstasy and agony Same today and tomorrow as was so in the days of Kipling