Passion Of Our Legacy
© Surazeus
2025 03 03

Clear-eyed with hope beyond the coming storm,
I glide gracefully on lake of thin ice,
silver blades singing brightly as I carve
starred silhouette of our secretive pride
on cosmic mirror of epiphany
that reflects passion of our legacy.

Intense attention to elegant form
with tensile arms outstretched in wingless flight
motivates our progress through muscled pace
to transcend limits of our fragile frame
and soar with breathless joy on gleaming ice
that inspires passion of our legacy.

Beyond clumsy stumbles of eager hope
we inhale ethereal breath of blue sky
to leap high over obstacles of fear
with bold resilience of heartfelt faith
and glide with self-control of energy
that revives passion of our legacy.

Extending wings Daedalus wove for me,
with gentle arrogance of grim success,
I push against harsh wind of mocking fear
which cycles spirit through extremity
to focus certitude of honesty
that excites passion of our legacy.

Though frozen deep in lake of solitude
from morbid anguish of sorrow-crushed dreams,
I reach from core of heart-numbing despair
for eye of light reaching me in cold dark,
and break free from hard shell of fear to fly
that incites passion of our legacy.

Trapped stiff beneath hard ice of broken faith,
long paralyzed by fall from heights of pride,
I feel warm hands of light from Mother Sun
caress my frozen soul with gentle grace
which motivates rebirth through purest love
that ignites passion of our legacy.

Soaring on skates over thin ice of life,
I sing mercurial psalms with nightingales
to blaze with beauty in the starry sky,
then flame out into swirls of voiceless ash
which leaves traces of my dreams carved on stone
that records passion of our legacy.

In tearful memory for innocent souls,
young graceful skaters with angelic wings
who fell from Heaven in the burning plane
that crashed into the dark Potomac Stream,
I skate figure-eights through infinity
that preserves passion of our legacy.

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Orpheus skates with Kristi Yamaguchi in graceful dance to honor the skaters who died in the plane crash in the Potomac River.

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