Dust Beneath The Dragon

Rise and shine

Get up and grind

Work the body

Tame the mind

Race against time

We only have one day to shine

One week to live

Then it all begins again

Over and over

Forever, brother

Climbing the mountain

One step at a time

From rock bottom

To the peak

Alive for one more minute

Hour

Day

Or Week

Another moment to breathe

Another step 

Eyes frantically searching

For what comes next

A Soul almost in the present

A backpack full of regrets

Holes in our shoes

A soul to lose

Sore feet

But

The heart still beats

The heart still beats

Heels running from the heat

The crackling flames from underneath

Burn somewhere down deep

Through it all

The shadows from hell

Smell our fear

Alive for one more day

Week

Month

Or year

Another gray sky

Another day to die

Another attempt to fly

The wind turns

And the world burns

The world burns

Lessons that were never learned

So the world still burns

Dust beneath the dragons

Ash left by the nukes

This world is no fluke

This world is no fluke

The harsh truth 

The bitter bite

Things might not be as bright

As we thought they were when we were kids

It could be hard to live

The future might be dark

Humankind wasn’t too kind

And now we are what’s left behind . . .

No matter, brother

Rise and shine

Get up and grind

Work the body

Work the mind

Race against time

We have one day to shine

One week to love

Then it all begins again

Over and over

Forever, brother

A year

A decade

A century 

Or a millennia to live

No matter

For it’s all the same journey in the end.

-CH 4/9/25