Vale Of The Invisibles

Vale Of The Invisibles
© Surazeus
2025 01 15

Awake in vale of the invisibles, 
Hannah holds map of Never-Never Land 
to activate faculty of her mind 
for remembering the imagined world 
as no word breaks the dark of everywhere 
which encompasses her tremendous heart. 

With her birth certificate and scribbled poems 
preserved in briefcase with photos and books, 
Hannah leaves apartment after midnight, 
and walks forest of Erzgebirge Mountains 
to escape before state police return 
and lock her again in the prison cell. 

Humming to herself in the moon-red night, 
Hannah smiles with tears of her aching heart, 
"We will see each other when lilacs bloom 
and I will make a soft bed for your head," 
then hides in shadow of the raven wing 
with trucks of soldiers roar past on the road. 

Shivering by the small creek among old oaks, 
Hannah ignites flame of her wordless grief 
to mourn loss of her home and family 
whose spirits writhe in shadows of dark woods 
as light of darkness that can guide her safe 
to lamp-lit city streets shrouded in fog. 

After running through fields of grass and trees, 
running far to find lost garden of hope, 
Hannah stops when she sees the man she loves 
standing as he waits for her to arrive, 
so they run swift with surprise, and embrace 
with passionate anguish of tearful joy. 

"Now foreign to the land where I must flee, 
I stand alone where no country exists 
for I am not certain of anything, 
so I should now scorn the world of false hope 
while staring bemused at uncanny hand 
which creates meaning I deny is real." 

Typing long essay on dictatorship, 
that explores the banality of evil, 
Hannah feels seed of wisdom break its shell 
to show the world her dense interior 
that blooms with rise and fall of growing time 
till she knows the beginning of the world. 

"Wherever I travel in lands of Earth 
I thread my spirit through its labyrinth 
to connect my beginning with my end 
for sorrow will not silence my old dreams 
that inspire me to love this crazy life 
no matter how far I travel from home."