Passion Of Our Legacy

Passion Of Our Legacy
© Surazeus
2025 03 03

Clear-eyed with hope beyond the coming storm, 
I glide gracefully on lake of thin ice, 
silver blades singing brightly as I carve 
starred silhouette of our secretive pride 
on cosmic mirror of epiphany 
that reflects passion of our legacy. 

Intense attention to elegant form 
with tensile arms outstretched in wingless flight 
motivates our progress through muscled pace 
to transcend limits of our fragile frame 
and soar with breathless joy on gleaming ice 
that inspires passion of our legacy. 

Beyond clumsy stumbles of eager hope 
we inhale ethereal breath of blue sky 
to leap high over obstacles of fear 
with bold resilience of heartfelt faith 
and glide with self-control of energy 
that revives passion of our legacy. 

Extending wings Daedalus wove for me, 
with gentle arrogance of grim success, 
I push against harsh wind of mocking fear 
which cycles spirit through extremity 
to focus certitude of honesty 
that excites passion of our legacy. 

Though frozen deep in lake of solitude 
from morbid anguish of sorrow-crushed dreams, 
I reach from core of heart-numbing despair 
for eye of light reaching me in cold dark, 
and break free from hard shell of fear to fly 
that incites passion of our legacy. 

Trapped stiff beneath hard ice of broken faith, 
long paralyzed by fall from heights of pride, 
I feel warm hands of light from Mother Sun 
caress my frozen soul with gentle grace 
which motivates rebirth through purest love 
that ignites passion of our legacy. 

Soaring on skates over thin ice of life, 
I sing mercurial psalms with nightingales 
to blaze with beauty in the starry sky, 
then flame out into swirls of voiceless ash 
which leaves traces of my dreams carved on stone 
that records passion of our legacy. 

In tearful memory for innocent souls, 
young graceful skaters with angelic wings 
who fell from Heaven in the burning plane 
that crashed into the dark Potomac Stream, 
I skate figure-eights through infinity 
that preserves passion of our legacy.