Secret Of Timeless Joy

Secret Of Timeless Joy
© Surazeus
2024 12 28

If I search for simple heart-warming place 
to relax from ambition of the race 
for glamorous fame of power through wealth, 
I may find secret paradise through stealth, 
asleep in alleyway behind the bank 
where I dream I achieve the highest rank. 

I want to escape the game of world power 
to lounge in the meadow and hold the flower 
that conceals the secret of timeless joy 
when I gain release from role as the toy 
manipulated by the rich to do their will 
so I can earn enough to pay the bill. 

Tangled in mess of social obligations, 
contrived to maintain system of strong nations, 
I walk forever through the cityscape 
that constantly shifts beyond its mapped shape, 
so I never find my wife in our home 
though I decide to adjust where I roam. 

Embraced in privacy of our desire, 
we kiss to music of the city choir, 
so we decide to return to our place, 
but then she vanishes without a trace 
when she drives away on the gray moped, 
zooming away after the light turns red. 

I walk through endless angled corridors 
past ghostly shadows of half-open doors, 
through museums, stores, cathedrals, and schools, 
and factories where elves invent strange tools, 
then along the river down strips of grass, 
still hoping to find my literature class. 

Up steep stairways with frantic intent 
I climb toward office of the president 
who commissions me to make new world view, 
so I design castle for Xanadu 
till my wife texts me on the flashing phone 
while I wander lost in the twilight zone. 

Somewhere in vast city of buildings and parks 
I sense my wife is singing with the larks, 
so I keep walking through its crowded streets, 
attempting to organize mental receipts, 
till sudden wind scatters my words to the sky 
so I laugh with joy that there is no why. 

Inventing reason for our sweet romance 
based on practical concerns of finance, 
I maintain fantasy of daily life 
to support creative projects of my wife 
who transforms wilderness of tangled trees 
into Dream Garden I access with keys.