FIRE HORSE
66
66
Stygian
veil looming in the distance
she is on
a walkabout dance
Venturing
boldly into the impending storm
the
darkness provides some much needed anonymity
for this
rare and mysterious creature
Ostracized
as a harbinger of infelicity
she walks
the earth with defiant buoyancy
Not one to
be vanquished, she flout her feticidal fate
her
lifelong battle is to fight for her very freedom
Nine
steely truss facilitate her journey
transporting
her from one life toward a new moirai
From her
vantage she sees Horse Rock Point below
gazing,
magnetized, as the undertow of the tide swirls and flows
Like trees
in the distance, her dreaded mane in the strong winds blow
as a quiet
song escapes vishuddha, traveling into the tomorrow
teetering…
her restless spirit seeking to elope
longing to
become one, her wings unfold
she
crosses over as in a meditative dream
She will
not be broken
(c) Divinia Nightfire 21st September 2015
picture credits
Tom Ugly Bridge taken by me (c)tp2015
Black Horse: North Road: photo by Isabelle Ann, 22 April 2010
some notes:
I wrote this piece while crossing Tom Ugly's Bridge in Sydney
on the 18th September 2015
on my phone, in the dark as the storm was coming in.
While recomposing my words, I looked up some facts about the bridge
only to find that the point that it spans from on the south side is
called Horse Rock Point.
About the 1966 fire Horse... there literally are not very many in Asia
due to the superstition regarding this particular sign...and girls were even
more dangerous according to the Chinese.
There was a steep decline in births in 1966
and many babies, especially females were murdered at birth.
