Ever-Smiling Maid

Ever-Smiling Maid
© Surazeus
2025 06 28

The dirt-brown donkey with electric eyes 
seeks shade on the sun-blazed hilltop in Spain 
beside the small white chapel with no door 
where the ever-smiling maid of the well 
speaks to glowing stones of the white abyss 
about the homeland where the murdered dwell. 

The one-eyed boy with arrow in his heart 
turns away from the ever-smiling maid 
because he feels his crippled state of being 
is heavy burden she must bear with pain, 
but she grabs his arm with electric eyes 
and declares how they are on the same team. 

Together side by side on road of life 
we will face all the hardships of the world 
and support each other with loyal faith 
as we push through the bitter storms of fear 
so we emerge from waste land of despair 
to stand in paradise of calm respect. 

We share resolve encouraging our hearts 
to build our life from promise of true love, 
though road we walked is littered with regrets 
and road we blaze is veiled with blinding fear, 
for we share glowing bead of self-respect 
that helps us find each other in the gloom. 

Holding hands with firm resolve of shared faith, 
both one-eyed boy and ever-smiling maid 
advance together on uncertain road 
without knowing what dangers lie ahead, 
for even if their souls are crushed by fate 
they choose this path together to the end. 

When nine knights in shining armor appear 
on noble horses prancing with grand pride, 
the young couple walking the dusty road 
move aside and bow with humble respect, 
but the good knights decide with sneers of greed 
they want to take the maid as their cute pet. 

When the one-eyed boy tries to stop their deed 
they crucify him on dead apple tree, 
so the ever-smiling maid runs away 
but stumbles at edge of the windy cliff, 
tears streaming down her cheeks with bitter angst 
to see the boy she loves suffering in pain. 

Hanging crucified on the twisted tree, 
the one-eyed boy who grasps the snake of love 
screams in despair when ever-smiling maid 
leaps off the cliff and soars into the sky 
as she transforms into the sparrowhawk 
who bears his fractured skull back up to Heaven.