Weight Of Sadness

Weight Of Sadness
© Surazeus
2023 04 18

We feel the weight of sadness in gold mist 
that lingers long over blueberry fields 
without awkward questions of measurement 
describing gains and losses on scoreboards, 
so we lie down at night without ourselves, 
enthralled by scent of love we choose to share. 

We observe the small details of despair 
that nobody else ever notices 
except the metaphysician of faith 
who talks about the world we cannot see 
despite how waves crush diamonds into sand 
which preserve bright eternal eye of God. 

We ask the hard questions no one can read 
because the universe is still in flux 
of flushing liquor only gods would drink 
while wandering on the signless road of time 
since only clocks describe how things will change 
though windows try to freeze lies into truth. 

We shuffle cards of truth to read our fate 
because the fortune teller has gone blind 
though we cross borders into neverlands 
in search for paradise of anxious hope 
that now exists only on the frail vase 
as painting that depicts what we have lost. 

We talk about the weather with the ghost 
who never understands why we must cry 
at sudden flashing of atomic bombs 
which redefines the universe we dream 
when the old wilderness man in black cloak 
brings us the message we would not receive. 

We count our eggs while cherry blossoms swirl 
because we hope to die with the most wealth 
while friends huddle around the hot campfire 
to search for clues in riddles of the stone 
reversing flow of water from the sky 
which indicates the one who will win first. 

We kneel before the willow tree of faith 
with anguish undisguised to ask her why 
even the most famous will die alone 
though we must marinate steaks on the grill 
as sacrifice we offer to the god 
who lounges on high pyramid of bones. 

We gather in dark cave of Socrates 
to talk about ignorance of belief 
though we have map with route to Salamis 
where actors hide behind the roles they play 
because we want to weigh sadness with love 
till we find secret of eternal life.