Saturday, August 4, 2007

See You On the Other Side

The world before is swirling chaos
Ugly, dancing, grasping blackness

But I am not afraid!

Belly-deep burns a pit of ancient, ancestral, determination
A war horse rears between my thighs
A bear rises swiftly behind me...before me...
Beside me

And so we ride laughing...heart racing...
Into the screaming vortex

"See you on the Other Side!"

Knowing full well that the blood behind me
The horse beneath me, and the bear beside me
Have met in the center of the storm
And we ride together on

Invincible!

(for Joe Bruce)