I’m walking on ocean tides
bobbing with each rising and falling wave

lightening breaks, crackling
splintering the sky
like a paper Jesus
tearing himself apart

I hear the thunder
loud, relentless
savage!
ripping through the rain

you may think me arrogant
when I tell you this
but I didn’t flinch

instead, I danced
when I heard the ravenous thunder
I bathed in the pelting rain
baptized on a tumultuous ocean
and when the lightning flashed
horror through the sky
I smiled
because the storm
wouldn’t last
long enough to break my spirits
tonight
I rode the storm

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