Equal Under One Fair Law

Equal Under One Fair Law
© Surazeus
2025 07 12

Each time I return from oblivion 
I find the secret voice of my old heart 
buried in wretched suffering of the Earth 
from which I break free at call of the wild 
to flash awake from center of my life 
as deep blue shadow of the singing sea. 

Far out between the shadow and the form 
I orchestrate conceptual game of dream 
to measure vastness of my wordless prayers 
that veil this world of sorrow from your eyes 
so you believe this hell is paradise 
with laughter of stones in the river flow. 

We drive out to the endless ocean shore 
where wind and light are tangled in the stones 
which form foundation of the sideways sea 
that glitters mirror-perfect with our souls 
concealed in swans that flock along the waves 
with headstrong passion of the knowing heart. 

With flight of eagerness to capture joy 
we crest excessive waves of frantic faith 
through ordered neitherness of soft despair 
despite cold-hearted loyalty we trade 
to guard this garden built with bleeding hands 
till events clutter our forgotten past. 

Bewildered by nextness of anywhere, 
we go nowhere on signless road of fate 
to recognize achievements of great fools 
who plunge into dangerous state of affairs 
with pride to risk the comforting reward 
for the fleeting chance to win glorious fame. 

Replacement for my hand of broken wings 
arrives with weeping skeletons of fame 
who kneel to greet obscure reality 
with solemn hymns that shake cathedral walls 
that cost us our belief in justice served 
unfolding with the consequence of hope. 

Artful eccentricity of my aim 
communicates aberrant thrust of truth 
to vary avoidance of willed intent 
which misdirects attention of the mind 
focused on comprehension of respect 
so we can evade delicate despair. 

Yet pink lotus that blooms from mud of hate 
conjugates straight rays of eternal light 
through that delicate frame of reference 
which seeks to revise the world view we share 
so every person living on this Earth 
is treated equal under one fair law.