Nocturnal Hero

~

were you to watch me

secretly, 

like a spirit wraith 

you would notice I am 

a reluctant warrior, 

slow to violence albeit 

often forced to combat the 

facile discord and menaces 

that populate my dreams,

in that benign theatre 

of my psyche, where, 

unbidden my supernatural 

valour plays out amongst 

the vapid checks and pulses 

of the night, 

where timid thoughts transgress 

becoming worthy deeds,

where frailties unknowingly

combust into fortitude,

I am a dormant hero

a chameleon

*

© Graham R Sherwood 02/23