Hyacinths In Moonlight

Hyacinths In Moonlight
© Surazeus
2025 02 04

Pungent scent of hyacinths in moonlight 
veils her heart with swirling mist of desire 
so she walks through every room in the house 
to light tall candles with flickers of pain 
that dance in boisterous gusts of silver rain 
so green shoots thrust from urgency of love. 

Each break of sorrow from apple tree limbs 
extracts from silence murmur of strange voice 
expressing love for still relentless time 
till she stops suddenly before fake door 
that wears mask of someone she thinks she knows 
if she can steal their name from gust of wind. 

Concerned about destruction of the hall 
where his grandfather Goliath lies dead, 
Grendel scoops chess pieces in leather bang 
and walks endless beach of sugar-white sand 
where footsteps of Erendira preserve 
pools of black blood from broken hearts of angels. 

On bomb-blasted ruins of ancient homes 
in Garden of Eden, scattered for miles 
as heaps of broken memories and hopes, 
Grendel builds enormous estate of glass 
where she wanders huge empty rooms of hope, 
adjusting frequency of her brainwaves. 

Marked by sapphires of the infinite sky, 
Grendel brings herbs to her garden estate, 
burned down by gang of wolves with serpent eyes, 
to prove he loves her more than life itself 
while they float on their backs in the sad lake 
and plot how to paint shadows of the mind. 

With promise of regressive sovereignty, 
she scatters sunlight and rain on the soil 
where random seeds sprout into temple halls 
composed of trees that intertwine their limbs 
to imitate puzzle of Gordian knots 
professional enough to hang their god. 

Erendira tosses mirror of fate 
in dirt of atoms where it crawls away 
as laughing turtle of the uncrowned prince 
who insists he is Grendel recompiled 
by computer code that allows state thieves 
to access secret messages of seers. 

Through limited range of murderous words 
Grendel expresses his passionate love 
for innocent Erendira who sleeps 
while stars sprout into grapevines of desire 
where new hymns sung by the celestial choir 
contribute to rise and fall of respect.