Love Contrived From Code

Love Contrived From Code
© Surazeus
2025 06 15

Softer than angel wings forged from barbed wire, 
your harried words staple wounds of my heart 
with persistent pursuit of honesty 
that proves reluctant love contrived from code 
entangles cold reason with sentiment 
designed to resurrect my soul from sorrow. 

I wait for you on bridge of travesty, 
heart revving engine of false merriment 
with cheerful laughter of buzzing phonelines, 
though sands of time cover vast city maze 
where we stage theater of our romance 
based not on our secret intimacy. 

Still whittling memory from the broken bridge, 
despite inheritance of fractured names 
the dead disown with obvious distaste, 
I ask sad Psyche why she cries each dawn, 
but she lounges nude on the river shore 
while blind angels paint beauty of her soul. 

Spectral people acquainted with the night 
chafe at excessive slide of compound error, 
though no one calls the clown who steals my crown 
because he fumbles key of yesterday, 
old colleagues gathered to pray by the door 
that never opens to acquaintances. 

Never awkward despite appearances, 
the child who tries to weep talks to the pool 
about crepuscular hour when angels cry, 
but drinks tea brewed with tears of pregnant wolves, 
intolerant mystery never reconciled 
before the watchers count the falling snow. 

If I must, I count equine hours of loss 
to unbend slant of glass cathedral light 
which penetrates the stairs I never climb, 
intensity of truth contained by books 
more wordless than the horse beside the lake 
who recounts difficulties of the day. 

Never is always the right time to pray 
because no one ever answers from the sky 
that stares at me with nonchalant respect, 
though the red sun that never sets requests 
instruments to measure sudden eclipse 
that erases my name from hill of time. 

Lost in the yesterday of anywhere, 
I forge new soft wings with barbed wire of fate 
to understand heart-breaking loss of faith 
that people feel when bombs destroy their homes 
and send them wandering on the signless road 
to find love contrived from code of hope.