Beauty Through Tragic Suffering

Beauty Through Tragic Suffering
© Surazeus
2022 01 23

The cheerless tweeting of birds in bare trees 
removes sweet shimmer of the autumn breeze 
that swells with rich increase of fruitful faith 
though absence haunts me with your eyeless wraith 
from wanton burden of primal desire 
when we huddle around the crackling fire. 

As we lament lost pleasures of lush spring 
at anguished sorrow of the flapping wing 
Saturnus laughs and leaps in gusting wind 
to cheer our hearts that only fruit can mend, 
so for one hour the bleak sun glows blood red 
in scarlet halo around his hoar head. 

Through endless flashing of cold winter days 
I float in numbing pain of hungry haze 
as faces that glowed orange around hot blaze 
freeze into soulless masks of silver glaze 
yet still I wander weeping in mute daze 
on quest to map way free from doorless maze. 

No roses bloom on tangled thorny vines 
that veil dark entrance to rich diamond mines 
where I seek Eye of Whole Eternity 
revealing key to forge posterity 
with ringing hammer of aggressive hope 
my mind could soon transcend its global scope. 

With graceful wantonness of gentle sport 
we play chess games of power in castle court 
to prove who best can cultivate lush fields 
and who wins contest of love when she yields 
as we compete to generate more souls 
whose fierce ambition might fulfill our goals. 

When Phoebus rides from court on snow-white horse 
he finds Saturnus by frozen stream course 
cradling half-starved daughter in trembling arms 
whose ice-blue eyes gleam with innocent charms, 
so he bears Scotia to warm castle room 
where she wakes to his smile in rosy gloom. 

One thousand years later in our strange world 
their spirits generate the cosmic herald 
who drives to work as social analyst 
to study where Adam and Eve first kissed 
in Almaty Mountains of Scythia 
while he weeps in grove of forsythia. 

The cheerful howl of wolves in city streets 
who dance in shady parks to engine beats 
inspires my heart with coming of the spring 
to join world social media choir and sing 
about courage of the frail human being 
who finds beauty through tragic suffering.