Longest Night Of The Year

Longest Night Of The Year
© Surazeus
2022 12 21

If longest night of the year reveals why 
the sun god dies in cycle of rebirth 
we can find good reason within our hearts 
to gather close around the glowing hearth 
when bleak despair freezes our minds with fear 
till we sing heart-warming hymns of lost faith. 

Since longest night of the year conceals hope 
with endless darkness of the starless void 
we walk barefoot on mirror ground of truth 
down to the frozen river of desire 
to find the last ripe apple in the world 
still hanging from the barren tree of knowledge. 

Though longest night of the year allocates 
just enough bread from book of secret tales 
to soothe mind-numbing hunger for new faith 
we interrogate the indifferent moon 
for when the holy sun will rise again 
as our hands bleed grasping at lurid roots. 

While longest night of the year clangs the bell 
with desperate hope to understand true love 
we linger at locked door of empty church 
to beg for salvation from the blind king 
who laughs at antics of the jester-priest 
when he mocks our prayers with a whiny voice. 

Till longest night of the year obfuscates 
sacred myths about founding of our state 
we choose to believe the beautiful lie 
that we arrived on desolate shores of hope 
with purpose to build new kingdom on Earth 
based on equal justice for every soul. 

Yet longest night of the year relegates 
credit of wealth to fierce comedian 
brave enough to stand against oligarchs 
who write laws that empower companies 
to enslave the people with credit cards 
who pray every week for their global king. 

So longest night of the year ridicules 
our endless quest to maintain liberty 
as natural basis for democracy 
which nurtures skillful talent of the mind 
when marginalized people choose to live 
with creative passion for fertile faith. 

Still longest night of the year cradles close 
these fragile bodies of humanity 
which conjure consciousness of dreaming brains 
shocked at unfairness of mortality 
which motivates our free will to express 
visions of our hearts through weird poetry.