Hello my friend heat lightning! How beautiful you are! All of the sky alighting - Exploding shooting star! Illumined and transparent Bathing the sky like milk - Weaving the webs apparent Of white majestic silk! White, yellow, luminescent - You shimmer through the clouds! Delicate, iridescent, And making not a sound - Shining each place, all over, Completely unafraid In platinum, in silver - Like cobwebs overhead! And through them beams like sunshine The electrical charge - The unremitting passion Of universe at large! And then the rain starts drizzling And thunder then erupts Gentle, magnetic, sizzling - Like coffee from a cup - And as comes forth the power Which in it was contained The sky, on midnight hour, Erupts like cannonnade! Like nerves spread out and screaming, Like bursting light-filled veins, The lightning punctures Seeming And augments joy and pain - Is frame for all illusion With its electric light - Who can bear this intrusion? Who can believe this sight? The nerves of man, spilled out And bursting in the sky! Hate, fear, worry, doubt In heaven - how? Why? What makes you, and who are you? You, madman's random trails, You, baobabs on fire You, masts without sails! You, turmoil effervescent! You, agony and glee! You, passion incandescent! Are you now seeking me? I'll see you and I'll feel you I'll sense you in my heart The truths you are revealing That you wish to impart, And with my feet on gravel And head held out high I'll watch the roads you've traveled, Unraveled, in the sky. https://sites.google.com/site/ibshambatpoetry