People Desperate To Live

People Desperate To Live
© Surazeus
2025 07 05

Hot summer sun heats the metal mailbox 
with languid hope of timeless afternoons 
at silent running of the forest fox 
who brings secret stories from ancient moons 
disguised as letters from friends far away 
who write sad poems about growth and decay. 

While she lounges languidly on warm grass 
and dreams about strict lessons in ballet, 
she feels relentless flow of the hourglass 
disperse our conscious atoms till doomsday, 
but she decides she will live for this hour 
while watching the honeybee kiss the flower. 

Their home constructed of red brick and faith 
stands guard with sturdy passion of fierce hope 
in tranquil neighborhood of the star wraith 
defined by vision of the chronoscope 
that weaves our bodies in the human tale 
as fleeting flicker on the cosmic scale. 

They gather in the backyard at sunset, 
the parents and their children with sweet dreams, 
to eat burgers and read the town gazette 
recounting tragedy of social crimes 
committed by people desperate to live 
because they always take more than they give. 

Each time I come to where two roads diverge 
and pause to decide which way I should go, 
I recall wisdom of the demiurge 
that our spirit will continue to grow 
because we are free to design our fate 
based on each subsequent choice we create. 

As she explains this strategy for life, 
my mother gives me ripe apple to eat 
since we need energy to counter strife, 
thus our hearts grow stronger when we compete 
for we are the same anywhere we go, 
actors who play our parts in the world show. 

Though the world view we all share falls apart 
we focus on the basic principles 
that form foundation of the social heart 
which provides blueprints for communal roles 
we play in world food-production machine 
orchestrated by the fertile May Queen. 

We gather on the shores of lakes and seas 
to remember when our First Mother rose 
from lake of dreams at dawn of time with keys 
that open doors to temples where gods pose 
as glamorous stars in the global game 
over who will die with money and fame.