Taranis, the Celtic Thunder-God, for sufferers of Long Covid and all debilities

“Taranis, the Celtic Thunder-God”

- for all suffering
the wrath of Long Covid
and all debilities


Relentless, rolling thunder
rumbles in my brain
Apprehensively I lie in wait
for lightning and the rain

Before me stands Taranis,
thunderbolt and wheel in hand
At his feet my head, an offering
—abruptly lands

I choose not to question
this powerful deity;
what may be his intention,
or why he has chosen me

Rolling thunder rumbles louder,
pounds upon my startled heart!
Strikes of lightning slash the sky,
causing flooding rains to start

With eleven votive chariot wheels,
on each eight golden spokes
I am adorned-
Taken to Achilles River
I am cast in, and reborn

There, in perfect silence
upon the river’s shore,
I lay prostrate, I am whole-
the headless sacrifice no more









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