Words Make Her Invisible

Words Make Her Invisible
© Surazeus
2025 01 24

Her words disturb the silence of the world 
so Mary puts them in the secret box 
till someone asks where she has disappeared to 
though she is standing right in front of them, 
because her words make her invisible 
except to ghosts in the mirror of love. 

Through cryptographic message of her name, 
which no one ever hears spoken aloud, 
she warns them how illusions of their world 
cannot shield their souls from reality, 
so she becomes absence that haunts their days, 
always mute in dim shadows of their fears. 

Down by the creek in endless purple rain 
where she discusses politics with frogs 
the crowd assembles from unspoken fear 
to berate her with hate of broken tongues 
the shocking fact that trees will never care 
till she assures them the sun has not died. 

Yet when the Gift Giver, dressed in red cloak, 
appears with bags of presents for them all, 
they beat him up and steal concepts of wealth 
which they find are nothing but plastic toys 
so they chase him out of town with pitchforks 
which they never use to harvest the grain. 

While she stands in the wet field by the oak, 
watching for signs of change in the still sky, 
she writes no lessons for people to learn 
in the blank book that quivers in her hand 
till it transforms into the hungry crow 
who waits patiently on the red stop sing. 

When she tries to explain to the church ghosts 
that the chandelier of famous glass masks 
has fallen from the weird celestial realm, 
they laugh and walk across the broken bridge 
to throw their sorrows in the frozen stream 
as smooth stones that clatter and roll away. 

Awake with startled curiosity, 
she gazes through the global telescope 
which lets her see grand monuments of state, 
but she adjusts the settings with the dial 
to see faces of people in each land 
but finds their names carved in their eyes with pain. 

Hoping to understand what motivates 
their casual performance of long-dead gods, 
she asks each person she meets on the road 
if they remember when the star-eyed man 
walked among them with diamonds in his hand, 
but they shake their heads, and she cries alone.