Garth Rakumakoe

Fortitude

At once,

from the very steelness of thought,

vessels capsize and sink

under the chaotic rise

of emotive oceans- volcanoes erupt,

and wreak havoc

Tremors awake,

and pandemonium breaks

as the multiple tentacles

of the giant octopus

rise as monstrous whips

from within the deep seas

of man\'s leaping mind

sweeping the skies\' echelons

eclipsing day to night

 

As he wills them

the enormous arms

come crashing down

with violent vehemence!

 

They crush empires,

decimate utopias,

and demolish constructs-

Clamoring the world\'s myths

in a furious fist

to swallow it whole

sucking its epileptic fits!

 

He blinks a giant tentacle whip

beyond orbit, purging

all cognitive dissonance

along the way

to kiss the bare-naked truth

of his true intended glory

bathing in the liquid furnace

of the sun\'s very surface

and spits forth a tilted axis

beneath the stars,

of a new globe, reimagined

redefined, reunited

with himself

in the altered reality

thought forth

by his most screaming desires