Electric Veins
Poem
Here in her video game blanket she rides the wind
Electric guitar strings wiring her brain
Pink hair soaking
Clouds moving, skin glowing
Adventure in everything
Racing in the rain, a ride through the city
Speed in her dance, a fire across the world
She rises and falls, an epic wave slays
She flies
Skies beget her, trickling stardust and thunder
Neverending sky, so high the horizon she climbs
Thunder stomps across the atmosphere
Making way at the speed of light
Senses sharpen
The world opens up to her
Empty space surrounds
She can do anything
She steadies her eyes
Focused, determined
Burning
She cranks into high gear
Fire spills, dropping out of the sky
Dodging effortlessly
She swims and soars, ducks and swerves
Flowing on the edge so easily
Burning
A smile curls in the midst of life and death
On the edge of her mortality
So alive, she’s breathing every moment
Surfing on the waves of her experience, her seconds
Her near misses
Surfing on the edge of immortality
Never feeling her superpowers
Glowing and growing like this before
She dives again
Nothing can stop her
Effortlessly daring
Intuition overpowering
Letting go
Somehow she knows
She jumps
Catching onto a snaking dragon
Flying
Together, roaring across the sky
The moon rises
She can touch its light
Smooth and cool
They slither to and through
Moonbeams flickering
She feels them soaking in
Gliding into her electric veins
Moonbeams pumping
Soothing her restless heart
And its ceaseless desire for speed
And immortality
more by ANNA ELISE
