Secret Mission She Forgot

Secret Mission She Forgot
© Surazeus
2023 02 18

With courageous strength of euphoric hope 
from the little thief of her ferret heart, 
she bears painful anguish of bitter loss 
through stoic wisdom of the cliffside tree 
that helps her transcend misery of despair 
to fly on audacious wings of contempt. 

With timeless contemplation of the world 
while resting in shade of the maple tree, 
she ponders model of the world she sees 
to analyze flow of cause and effect 
that she perceives in sequence of events 
framed by grand narrative her mind designs. 

With brash confidence of one who faced death 
by struggling from river muck in the storm, 
face lashed by stinging rain of bitter hope, 
she strides along the sunlit road of faith 
toward walled city shining on distant hill 
to fulfill secret mission she forgot. 

With brazen puzzlement in dizzy fear 
of shapeless shadows shifting among trees, 
she looks around the forest of strange wind 
and wonders how she came to be now here 
in tedious nowhere of obtuse belief 
too convoluted for arduous thought. 

With inefficient passion still preferred, 
that represents determined hope to live, 
she nominates the raven on the rock 
as antiquated judge of noble deeds 
while staring at her stark face in the pool, 
opting to invite Death from cave of fear. 

With onerous goal of inflexible faith 
that benefits rational principles, 
she studies motivation of the stone 
to comprehend impetus of weird fate 
by which our nation purports to achieve 
perfect balance between self and the state. 

With superfluous labor of the fool, 
redundant through imprecise honesty, 
she measures anachronistic flow of time 
to streamline archaic process of growth 
more nonintuitive than burning trees 
relative for obsolete custom tricks. 

With shocking revelation of dawnlight, 
that streams with bureaucratic attitude, 
she wakes from daze of repetitious dance, 
enchanted by light on water of love, 
and runs toward walled city on the red hill 
that burns with flames of political war.