Black Knight (Recalling Alice In Wonderland)

Fierce in love, a warrior on occasion,
joy just comes out,
like the sun
cuts directly through clouds.

Open to competitive testing
and the need to free
itself from habits of doubt,
joy requires interior sensing.

In a life of continued questing,
joy lives life out,
as it should,
shedding loss and accounts of failure.

Joy completes the route
leading straight to red coronation
in the white queen's bed.