Sadness Is The Last Pear

Sadness Is The Last Pear
© Surazeus
2025 03 30

Because I break into blossom each time 
I step out of my body without my mind, 
I breathe the happiness of lonely wind, 
embarrassed when my brain begins to chime 
with passion of ambiguous respect 
for how our vehement bodies connect. 

Though sadness is the last pear on the tree 
where horses eat grass that grows from my grave, 
I carve my happiness in the dark cave 
where bats are the demons who can fly free 
to dry meadow where Gordius ties the knot 
since angels crown him King of Camelot. 

If anyone thinks art can cure disease 
they have not felt the piercing angst of faith 
branded in our hearts by eyes of the wraith, 
nor shivered when the chilly forest breeze 
blows tattered fog among laurels at dawn 
when the exiled king has to play the pawn. 

To learn survival in the wilderness, 
after great civilizations collapse 
at shocking strike of the apocalypse, 
I seek to overcome safe happiness 
with boisterous song of bitter irony 
based on my latest soul epiphany. 

Warm sunlight threads words in frame of my soul 
as I imagine how to save the world 
if I agree to play the cosmic herald, 
but meditate without reaching for my goal 
through unpredictable flight of the heart 
down secret trails not mapped on any chart. 

Untriggered anger of the wordless play 
inspires my long-reluctant heart to try 
for random chance at well-earned victory 
sailing swiftly across the wind-flashed bay 
against blank facades of ambivalence 
which cannot guarantee calm nonchalance. 

Attention to strict rules of dialogue 
maintains clear focus on bold self-defense 
against attack by minions of pretense 
at fateful commission to catalog 
destructive actions of traitors and thieves 
because my mother is the one who grieves. 

Annihilated light of unseen truth 
adjusts trajectory of our national curve 
where good leader we choose is tasked to serve 
needs of the people by messiah sleuth 
who washes clean our nation of despair 
because his hate teaches us how to care.