Is a boulder wedged
Betwixt thy chest
Bearing weight
Of moving – beyond
Dost thou push against
The peak of unrest
An unmoving
Sought to abscond
Accursed encumberment –
Zeus, come urgent!
Trade distant
For the fond
That feeling lost
To pebble tossed,
Skipped
Across shallow pond
Do you even care for
Did you ever – more –
Stop to think
Or consider at all
What precipitates –
The flood – the rain –
Is the same which
Prompted the roll
For I have no brake
So, to break – my fate –
Is what remains
To break my fall
Now all I hope for
Is coming – war –
To bleed me
Dry and dull
Passion – passed
Regiment – collapsed
Atop sword
Of your own recruit
And yet I stand
Hand in hand
With fallen
Soldiers – resolute
For I am leg-bound,
Surface-drowned,
By pit
Of fruitless pursuit
A victim still
To down-turned hill
And resolution
Most astute
The storm is done
But not the burden
That drums –
A thunderous applause
A wound that heals
Still yet conceals
Heart held
Together by gauze
Bless me – rid
Thine Sisyphus –
Of that stone-still
Chore you bore
Why must I carry
What once was merry
Now bruised,
Shattered and sore?