Broken Country Of The Heart

Broken Country Of The Heart
© Surazeus
2025 08 24

Lost in the broken country of my heart, 
I offer love to my friends in the art 
of sentences composed of fractured words 
expressed by thought cadence of chirping birds, 
though our midnight audience is now gone, 
musical voices fading with the dawn. 

Sometimes I am so happy with myself 
I leave my sorrows hidden on the shelf 
in secret library of weeping books 
by which people are defined by their looks, 
so I open locked doors with sword of truth 
to prove I should play the messiah sleuth. 

Though I have lived with blindness of the mind, 
compelled by experience acting kind, 
I overcome with laughter obstacles 
through automatic flash of molecules 
threading gold light with circumscribed intent 
to achieve objective without precedent. 

If I prove intent of serious grief 
by holy nun who wanders wish massif 
with prayer book written with green dragon blood, 
I kneel with her where lotus blooms from mud 
along the pebbled brook of honesty 
where she derides our social travesty. 

She gives me precious token of her soul 
with vague concern that I should meet her goal 
of building paradise in the fear zone 
to preserve our memories in the rolling stone 
which crushes clay-foot idol forged from gold 
defined by set points of the manifold. 

Though twitter I hear opposite the sea 
reveals how to attain land of the free, 
my heart may subdivide from gratitude 
in wounds healed never by the platitude 
which arrogant people shout to assert 
unproven right to own the fertile dirt. 

With generous passion of strange privacies, 
contrived from paintings of anxieties, 
I choose allegiance that quells vain regret 
for sacred goddess in the minaret 
who sings heart-aching spells of loyal faith 
to travelers haunted by the lunar wraith. 

We struggle to transcend delirium 
with ambiguous chance for Elysium, 
yet share mysterious wisdom of the rain 
that seems to wash away all mental pain, 
so if we follow riddles of the chart 
we may find broken country of the heart.