Coup de Foudre

You cannot argue 

with the lightning

it’s bright scourges of fire

do not answer to our wishes

and where

the whip of it strikes 

sometimes we are undone 

ruined by heat 

and magnetic forces 

beyond our enduring. 

The shockwave 

from the superheated air 

booms into thunder 

this wave of sound

follows the many threads

of the lightning’s fingers

tracing its path 

from sky to earth. 

Against this strength

who are we to bear back 

to defy the hammer of the gods

to say that our will

and desires are our own 

better to let 

the return stroke

burn between us 

recoiling a dozen times or more

through the same channel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#/media/File:Staccoto_Lightning.jpg