Ode to a lightning bolt

Where are you Oh Odin's thunder

With your head up in the clouds

Well isn't it a wonder

Lightning would strike

And you'd be caught under

That bolt from the blue

That has riven this old tree through

And split from its sides its ship-length timbers 

Going from the bells

Swinging in the tower

tolling in the wind with all of its power

Where are you now Mr Lightning Bolt?

Impulsivity is your nature

You feel the jolt

The knee jerk reaction

You can feel it in your knees

It will rain tonight

You can hear it in the trees

Get your feet back down to earth

And ground yourself in its dirt

Positive and negative and neutral

All your electrical impulses fuel

This storm, this tension

This heat

Then snap, of course

The live wire sparked

The sky just shorted

And found the easiest possible route

Where are you now the dogs have stopped barking?

Now the moon has stopped arcing.

The lights have stopped lightning.

And the drains have stopped draining.

All the water of the raining

Tell me where are you?

In my love spectroscopy in my love epiphany

Cacophony of kaleidoscopic free verse

Has anything changed?

Is anything worse?

Or are you just,

Down to earth?