dearest ragged runner

Dearest Ragged Runner
 
You are never more radiant
than when you glisten against your struggles.

Because,
when you came barreling,
like the little engine that says, No, I know I can, No, I know I can,
and you hit that proverbial, that archetypal wall,
your eyes said you had never felt so weak, so beaten,
 
and yet, gloriously, 
powerfully,
you kept going.
 
 
Oh, My Dearest Ragged Runner,

There is no greater champion,
or louder cheerleader, in your corner,
than your proud, proud, drum,
beating, beating, your triumphant song.


M. L. Michael 
7/16/13

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