Endurance

Endurance

by Tim Reed

with foot swift
and fiery eye
keep to the course
pace, intensify

in dark day
when sun is dead
look skyward
raise your head

through cold night
eternity long
nothing can quench
unbridled song

at last moment
looking above
sorrows dissolve
in the Savior's love

The Great Boa

The Great Boa

By Tim Reed

rope of black eyes

cold and strong

Will you rise to meet me?

Will I stumble to greet you?

Others do not see you, but those should fear.

I do not fear the coils of Hades

Nor the heat of Perdition's flames

- icy burning coals set in black orbs -

I see you, but oh

my hand is steady

my foot swift

I refuse to jump the Great Boa

but I will meet him

I refuse to jump the Great Boa

but my heel will gladly crush his head

rope of black eyes

dead and cold

the Great Boa rises no more - forever

The Spark

The Spark

by Tim Reed

A Torch feeds on flesh

the aching rebellion

against fate made behind sealed doors

footfalls scatter Embers

Golden Burning Eyes

cannot pierce the night's shawl of ink

but as a thought, a laugh of wind

above soars on eddies of revolution

a Spark

a Fire

a Deluge

Heat rising - roaring

"I Will Be Heard!"

"I Will Be Known!"

Orange fingers close around a ball of ash

but all crumbles like the hope of fading love

earth's tears tame the flaming leviathan

doors and ink again conspire

...but a Spark remains

such has it always been