Lightning Poem by Barry Middleton

explosions shower velvet night
like fireworks of the gods
and I must tally up my card
to calculate the odds

they say to look beyond the sky
if I would leave the earth
but I am trapped by gravity
it's tied me down since birth

and I am trapped by hidden walls
while longing to be free
and I am trapped by fear and doubt
and unknown destiny

I may not see the promised flash
when truth at last shall fall
but lightning's beacon in the night
portends the closing call