I Hear Crickets Singing

I Hear Crickets Singing
© Surazeus
2025 09 13

Now that the soul-shooter has been revealed 
to be the vampire shadow of their fear 
they should apologize to everyone 
they demonized as being responsible, 
for we are innocent of their vile charge, 
yet they would rather eat dirt and spit wind. 

I hear crickets singing in the grim night 
when all is quiet in my neighborhood 
where ravens gather in tall creaking oaks 
to chat about fierce wars that humans fight 
over who has the inalienable right 
to live without harassment in this land. 

Their shadows gleam among indifferent trees, 
the people forced to flee land of their birth, 
as they wander lost in the wilderness 
far from the garden where they mothers sang 
before their bodies crumbled into dust 
that feeds the fruit trees blooming in sunlight. 

When hungry gang of thieves ambush Du Fu 
and run away with bags of food he bought, 
he cries out to the cold indifferent sky 
that sends wind to batter his fragile home 
so his young children have nothing to eat 
while the king feasts well in palace of power. 

Though nationalists declare this land is theirs 
because they conquered it centuries ago, 
and try to chase all newcomers away, 
they will exhaust themselves screaming in hate 
till their bitterness dissolves into misery 
so the rest of us can live on in peace. 

People from every land across the sea 
gather together in land of the free 
to share stories of their tortuous quests 
how they escape fascist dictatorships 
and join their hearts in democratic cause 
where every person lives through liberty. 

Our Goddess of Liberty still stands tall 
with Lamp of Truth shining bright in the gloom 
to luminate laws of equality 
providing framework for constructive deeds 
so we confirm our soul with self-control 
that sustains liberty within the law. 

We all dwell together in this great land, 
united in cause of justice for all 
as we fight against exploiters and thieves 
to protect each other through empathy 
so every person breathing air of truth 
may thrive with faith in dignity and love.