I am lightning.
Catch me!
Nobody can.
Flexing muscles to shift reality as I am wont,
For I am a force of will.
Many think me Sisyphus!
Hefting my boulder up the proverbial hill.
Silly mortals,
I am Prometheus.
Feast upon my liver,
Vultures!
Let me twist the knife myself,
Offer it out to you on the tip of the blade.
I reward the abnormal,
Curate the talented,
Invest in their hearts.
I know the value of a pound of flesh,
The weight of a soul.
I am the monologuing villain,
Vaudeville in garb!
I’m coming for you.
With comic intent,
Wry smiles.
I am Capone,
Loading the Tommy Gun,
Shell by shell.
As my grandfather did in the wars,
As the liquor told in habits.
Tympanic!
Titanic.
Semantic.
Know your thoughts in your movements,
Feel your desire in your smell.
So you like to court danger?
Have you come as my hero?!
I am BORED!
Of existence as it is,
Can you tell me a different story?
My beautiful hero,
Defender of…
Whom?
I wanted a challenge,
For I am thunder.
Stop me from sounding!
I’ll feel you raw,
Like hands in ice.
I have guinea-pigged myself for less!
You are merely…
White mice within the maze,
Racing to your last,
For a single bite of cheese.
I will pluck your nerves in symphony,
Not merely strike them.
Weave your traumas into tapestries!
So I may know your truths.
Learn your heart songs.
Flee,
Little hero!
Or not.
For if I am lightning,
You must become the clouds.
Ions in friction!
Promenade with my charge.
Water conducts electricity,
You see.
Handy tip I learned from Pokemon.
Do you know the story of Gilgamesh?
Who finally found his equal?
Poor Enkidu.
Weep for your dead.
Can you catch me?
Icarus?
For I am Daedalus,
Crafting a clockwork copy of Sol,
In radiance.
I must keep you safe,
Protagonist.
Bleeding ink across the pages,
Bleeding heart across the floor.
Can you overcome your fear of death?
As I have?
Stared so long into the abyss,
It became me.
Serenade me in shadows,
Batter me with your will!
I am an apex predator,
Guarding my flock.
Shepherd,
Battling against my hunger.
Kill me,
Hero.
Before I can devour it all.
Kiss me,
Hero.
Show me what you’ll do,
Should you ever catch lightning!
I Am Lightning, Catch Me!
