Mask That Fear Designed

Mask That Fear Designed
© Surazeus
2025 09 26

Too lazy to remember why I care 
about the sorrows of the suffering, 
I hide my sorrows in the river stone 
and savor suffering of my broken wing, 
pretending happiness comes when I share 
secret treasures I detect when alone. 

Mixed up about why love nurtures our souls 
with tender bitterness of strange routine, 
I choose to hide in shadows of my mind 
to study psychic gears of dream machine 
which programs how we play our social roles 
in tandem with the mask that fear designed. 

Untouchable by angst of hungry hope 
despite collapse of our civilized state, 
I publish broken hierarchies of faith 
to break obstructing wall of random fate 
so I maintain system I use to cope 
with global fame contrived by the star wraith. 

Despite my effort to find fulfillment 
through binding emotions in riddling spells, 
I free attentive thoughts as wingless birds 
that shriek in flames from disconcerting hells 
with courage to be more resilient 
as shameful feelings get trapped by brave words. 

When the moon is born from womb of the Earth 
through wrenching explosion of naked love, 
I wonder listlessly if I am good 
enough to earn key to the treasure trove 
so I can analyze what faith is worth 
while I run with horses in Apple Wood. 

Because I walk the low-tide beach at dawn 
to gather eggs of demons with my hand, 
I cannot steal what writhes inside my heart 
reflected by the variegated land 
that twists with angst of the innocent fawn 
who teaches me how to draw my star chart. 

Amazed at strange beauty of the orange moon 
dismembered by theology of lust, 
I gather eyes from animals in jars 
so I can study arrogance of trust 
with purpose to ascend the slippery dune 
before the world is heaped with rusting cars. 

If pearls record how humans fight for power 
deceived by shadows of glory and fame, 
I choose fall in love with Sylvia 
who grins at me and gives me secret name 
so I have right to climb her sacred tower 
and help her raise our daughter Pythia.