Together By The Lake

Together By The Lake
© Surazeus
2023 05 13

Because we walk together by the lake 
that still reflects stark light of the blind sun 
we feel strange beauty of the spinning world 
beam illogical honesty of love 
we share on journey of our lonely life 
with children who spring from our dreaming eyes. 

Though I am deaf and cancer eats your heart 
we walk the signless road of nevermore 
with tangled wings of angels long unseen 
to find the Promised Land that is not real 
except in songs the foolish faithful sing 
while living in simple homes by the sea. 

So I will light your candle in the dark 
which should illuminate our cave of dreams, 
dispelling monstrous fear of hungry death 
as we survive harsh trauma of attack 
when tyrants send loyal soldiers of war 
to slaughter lovers of soul liberty. 

All children should run free on sunlit hills 
and share sweet fruit of trees they tend with care, 
yet sons of men who survived holocausts 
shoot missiles at demons that haunt their dreams 
but kill instead the frightened innocent 
whose blood cries out to our hearts from the ground. 

The safe world of their homes, shattered by blasts 
of fearful arrogance, cannot protect 
fragile beauty of our glass skeletons 
though we dance in eternity of hope 
and sing ancestral hymns to holy saints 
martyred by tyrants in castles of gold. 

Somewhere on Earth in every faithless age 
fierce gangs of men with weapons of despair 
fight over who eats fruit from Tree of Life, 
killing each other to live safe and free 
by building empires on their privilege 
till Earth is strewn with singing skulls of gods. 

So I will fight to make this land my own, 
declares the frightened child who grips the stick 
while staring into nothingness of night 
to defend the land that becomes his grave 
while Earth keeps spinning in the starless void 
till I rise laughing from womb of the sea. 

Though I am deaf I hear song of your voice 
express hidden thoughts of the multitude 
who walk streets of vast world metropolis 
that mushrooms from fear sea to shining sea 
till our brains are wired in the world wide web 
because we walk together by the lake.