A High Wire Artist (9/15/88)
William Goresko 1951 (Philadelphia, PA) – 2008 (Willow Grove, PA)
I travel the lonely road
Between exaltation
And oblivion;
A high wire artist
With no safety net.
Looking into the void of
The darkened amphitheater
I walk that fine line,
Foot following foot,
Arms stretched out,
Moving forward half blind.
That hard, taut wire
My feet firmly embrace
Pulls me forward along
The edge ever higher
Up through the black space.
With no end in sight
And no turning back,
I continue along
The seam which joins
The frozen ground below
To the blazing sky above.
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Submitted by cuwoodford on May 31, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 463 |
| Words | 86 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 22 |
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