Track And Field: Sport And Music (Dedicated To Daniel Chen) Poem by Kevin Wang

step by step
each second beckons
faster and faster
it grows

these feathered wings
along the arm length
these scurried steps
converging into gallops

gaining
gunning
not a second to lose
the celerity flight
among the numbered beats
upon the delineated floor

so proud
so honorable
the sweating upper torso gleaming like polished silver
the fragrance of victory whistling through the air

Bang
Boom
The last straight run
Down these steps impaling the swelled moon
Sounding the champion upon this amazing feat

Of the runner who won this battle
Against his heart

Of the composer who
Sounded his last note

Of the champion who
Composed his last enthralling breath