Achillean Fable

Written on 4/27/26, finished at 4:44 pm

I will not be snuffed

I cannot be tamed

I am your abyssal waters

And I, your igniting flame

I am the fire that rages and flickers

I am a great lake overflowing

Into rivers, into streams

Colliding into heat, into ether, into steam..

You are engulfing, incinerating

And that sure, steady glow

You are the faith in my step

My abandon into chaos, into progress, into hope

I am your safest place

The courage beating in your chest

I am your weeping eyes

Your greatest trial, your truest test

I am the hand that rescues

And I, the strength that stands

The anchor to your ship

Sailing off to foreign lands

I am the wound that never healed

The thorn to your rose

I am the reason

For that final path you chose