Laugh With Joyful Travesty

Laugh With Joyful Travesty
© Surazeus
2025 11 10

She wonders if she can ever be happy 
as birds that flutter in arrogant trees, 
but decides she likes to scramble her eggs 
between thin slices of grilled sourdough bread 
with sliced tomato and pepper jack cheese, 
and glass of apple cider angels brewed. 

Ignoring incessant rumble of engines 
as cars and trucks and motorbikes glide past, 
she studies equations for algebra 
at small table outside the sidewalk shop 
where her mother serves bowls of spicy noodles 
to people shopping at the market place. 

Two men shout as they argue about money, 
then punch each other and roll on the ground 
as old dog on the leash barks at their fight, 
so she hits them with the broom on their backs 
till they stomp away, cursing at the clouds, 
then she sighs and naps on the open book. 

Young woman in high heels and yellow skirt 
runs swiftly past with hair flying in the wind 
and shouts something about their scheme gone bad 
despite her warnings that no one would heed, 
so she wonders why bright clouds never fall 
except as rain that cannot manage sorrow. 

Reluctant to gamble for her salvation 
displayed for sale from the man in the moon, 
she offers sandwiches and beverages 
to homeless people camped behind the bank 
who eat while she performs her magic act 
causing beast of despair to disappear. 

If anyone can bring out her good side 
and make her laugh with joyful travesty, 
she might be fooled at their sincerity 
instead of searching for their hidden motive 
which drives every being on the Earth 
to fight for their gain against fateful odds. 

When the ship bearing steel ore on the lake 
cracks apart and sinks in hurricane storm, 
she catches souls of dead sailors with kites, 
like the fisherman who hooks fish with hope, 
which gives them wings to sail beyond the moon 
on sacred journey for the Promised Land. 

One fallen angel with storm-crippled wings 
limps painfully slow on field of red poppies, 
cradling the last dragon egg in the world 
to her nurturing breast with tender care 
because she wants to conquer every nation 
and forge them into empire of the heart.