My Grief Is My Own

My Grief Is My Own
© Surazeus
2025 03 23

My grief is my own, so I will contain 
volatile ardor of my suffering 
trapped in receptacle of my strained heart 
to preserve aggression of passive angst 
safe from causing injury to other people 
who struggle to deal with their own affliction. 

So many innocent people of Earth, 
who seek to escape oppressive conditions 
and struggle across waste land of despair 
to find haven safe from exploitive thieves, 
stumble blind into far worse situations, 
trapped in bitter hell they cannot escape. 

Accumulation of their wordless grief, 
piled onto unbalanced scale of my heart, 
weighs all their suffering of relentless pain 
more heavy than enormous mindless stones 
crushing my mind with fearful agony 
that I cannot rescue even one from sorrow. 

I want to save, with bold alacrity 
of eager zeal, every person on Earth 
trapped in exploitive hell by greedy thieves 
who suck their vital dreams with vampire lust 
so maze of cities becomes cluttered thick 
with traumatized zombies searching for love. 

Numb from excessive vibes of bitter pain 
radiating from mute hearts of fear-trapped souls 
who despair at ever living in freedom, 
I wander vast maze of weird mythless world 
past smiling faces that hide helpless regret 
which drives them to stage ineffective rituals. 

Clutching to my heart with desperate hope 
magic ring of invisibility, 
I clamber down in Underworld of fear 
to forge divine key of true comprehension 
so I can open every prison door 
and free frightened souls trapped in legal limbo. 

Hundreds of thousands of women and men, 
trapped in void between law and lawlessness 
as alien immigrants to Wonderland, 
cry out for help to Storm God in Glow Cloud 
who invests power in wealthy oligarchs 
to enslave their bodies for pilfered profit. 

The cage-trapped Eagle of America, 
who tries to hatch stone of grand principle 
that every soul is equal in the law, 
attempts to escape storm of revolution, 
but dies when its head cracks at golden bars, 
so I keep heart-breaking grief to myself.