We Hear The Weeper

We Hear The Weeper
© Surazeus
2026 02 01

If every dream deferred were to explode 
with fear from sweet syrup of rotten meat, 
then Red Maria with hands of hawk wings 
will lead the hungry refugees of war 
across the Jordan River of despair 
and to crumbling church where devils sing. 

When Red Maria passes by my home 
to tell us how the new day has begun, 
we turn away from where war always burns 
to hide in silver mist from factories 
that shroud the lake of fish in silent rage 
where singing stones inform us of the score. 

If we should all arrive in Lombardy 
where rumors of mutual acquaintances 
reveal secret code of conspiracies, 
I shall prowl restless archives of my mind 
to find the gentle Monster of our state 
who wants to sing instead of scaring us. 

Hydra-headed bird of America 
lurches with wounded wing of arrogance 
across the windy prairie of the heart 
to ask if Red Maria could restore 
score for our cheerful tune of nourishment 
despite how milk-cart horses wait for wealth. 

We hear the Weeper in the doorless home, 
whose voice is querulous with shrill regret, 
express blind silhouette of wordless grief 
explicit with strange idiom of the street 
preserved in dictionaries no one reads, 
since we are all reluctant witnesses. 

Packed on the bus that bears dead souls to Hell, 
we race through forest of the howling wolf 
in vain attempt to escape bombs of rage 
by seeking ticket to the Promised Land 
without pretense of pleasure in fine art, 
hearts tangled in strings of the violin. 

We face our fate with courage of the fool 
while all the world weeps at harsh tyranny 
established by cruel kindness of the king 
who would pardon both assassin and thief 
by stabbing them with smile of unfair law 
that traps us in these strange times of despair. 

Over the trading world in fractured ship 
Odysseus sails beyond all legal bounds 
to grasp lost treasure with his diamond hand 
by selling coal to peasants in glass shacks 
who vote for Sun Thief as World President 
while clutching at their useless dreams deferred.