Uncontainable

A rumble. Born in the dark depths, it has been kindled, called to action Fueled, it begins to gather Rising, bubbling ebulliently as it builds. Up In its flight to escape the confining chasm, echoing around the caverns it ascends. climbing farther onward and upward Through the chambers it hastens now faster now stronger irrepressible. reaching, straining for the vent, the crater Overcoming gravity, all that pulls one down Overcoming dormancy, the dismissal by the world Overcoming pressures and stresses, morphing them into mere skipping stones Clambering, mounting, soaring until it bursts from my lips. I toss back my head and free this effervescent laugh