Time Of Laughing Trees

Time Of Laughing Trees
© Surazeus
2025 07 08

Too far back in the time of laughing trees 
we lose ourselves in games of hide and seek 
through frantic contest for king of the hill 
in which each madman grasping wand of power 
declares himself the winner by default 
till I arrange all their skulls on bookshelves. 

More fragile than the flower of desire, 
he finds his aching soul eager to die 
under vibrant emptiness of the sky 
while walking once again the same old route 
he always takes to find the true way out 
till he returns and lounges by the fire. 

While writing analysis of the world, 
in the late evening when wild crickets chirp, 
he pauses typing without knowing why 
to stare at shadow of the unknown moon 
that teaches him how to endure long days, 
forever trudging wrong way down the maze. 

If he admires with soft ungrafted thoughts 
water-wavering architecture of faith, 
he might discover pebble road of truth 
while wandering in the swirling mist of hope 
to find he wears the wrong name in his heart 
when he codes evanescent certainty. 

Thus when she finds him by the ruined church, 
where he clutches glistening horse-chestnuts, 
she conjures bright phantasms from his eyes 
that vanish when he grasps essential words 
composed of slippery fish he fries to eat 
while shouting in the thickened air of fate. 

Pure satisfaction of elusive truth 
reveals how puzzle of his cosmic brain 
lacks crucial pieces of the absolute 
which means more than he is willing to say 
on brink of revelation in the haze, 
hypnotized by illusions we create. 

How deep in maze of ever-winding streets 
he goes to find the garden of her heart 
where ghostly renderings of bitter truth 
haunt every waking hour of complex brains 
about sincere mourners of the mad king 
who dances naked on the storming heath. 

With canny calculation of contempt 
she scatters spells considered obsolete 
through unpredictable progress of jokes 
that drive his rattling wagon off the cliff 
where certainty of faith will misdirect 
intense attention of the analyst.