Chasing Vain Happiness

Chasing Vain Happiness
© Surazeus
2025 08 13

To fly to Heaven on the paper plane, 
while searching for strange beauty of the plain, 
I leap beyond limits of gold-brick walls 
and tumble to Earth where blind angel crawls, 
then stand and laugh at my own foolishness, 
exhausted from chasing vain happiness. 

If this mirror reflects ache of my heart 
that correlates with fate of my star chart, 
I wonder at the mask that hides my face 
people buy and sell in the marketplace, 
tricked by the mad princess of craftiness 
impoverished from chasing vain happiness. 

I want to own my own dream-fertilized land 
to grow enough food with my blood-stained hand 
so everyone in our nation can eat 
instead of having to play trick or treat 
when the rich acquire wealth through laziness, 
bankrupted from chasing vain happiness. 

To control the people of our great state 
who clamor desperate at the pearly gate 
I strike with punishment swift as the storm 
and mete out reward to those who conform, 
yet fear always impairs social progress, 
depleted from chasing vain happiness. 

Since strict demonic energy of hope 
fuels aggressive methods I use to cope, 
I follow winding river through the cove 
past gate of the devil afraid of love 
who trembles at spark of our jolliness, 
bewildered from chasing vain happiness. 

With ardent force of urgent innocence 
I twist back forward without precedence 
to realign conceptual state of mind 
which I employ for yet-born souls to find 
how not to falter from kind loneliness, 
overwhelmed from chasing vain happiness. 

Through haze of images programmed by words 
I follow frantic flight of fearless birds 
to study transient beauty of this world 
embodied by sons of the cosmic herald 
who guard hermetic code of loftiness, 
justified from chasing vain happiness. 

Since he rejects existence of non-being 
through contradiction of the flightless wing, 
he falls into the bottomless void of truth 
which transforms him into messiah sleuth 
who wears formless face of Parmenides, 
mystified from chasing vain happiness.