Eyes That Can See

Eyes That Can See
© Surazeus
2026 03 26

So long as I live with eyes that can see 
faces of people in the city maze, 
strangers in my new-found community, 
I shall compare you to this fresh spring day 
when you tend apple trees in our backyard, 
dark red face glowing in light of the sun. 

Though we are fading with each seasoned year, 
trimmed by changing course Nature arrogates 
to transform lithe young bodies of our souls 
to withered wanderers in shade of time, 
we possess honest love that grows more strong 
since we first joined hands on our road of life. 

Unchanging love in changing frames of flesh 
gives us eternal life, though we will die, 
in children blooming from our fertile hearts 
who now possess bright youth as we grow old, 
because we transferred timeless glow of love 
to animate their bodies with pure light. 

Death always brags with honest smile of fate 
that we are wandering toward shade of her doom, 
yet we share pleasure in togetherness 
for heaven shines on both our mortal heads 
because we wander hand in hand toward death 
since we our one in bodies of our children. 

Safe in civil obscurity of love, 
we drive never-ending road of our love 
past quiet houses amid towering oaks, 
one heart-bound mind of daily pulchritude 
in separate bodies of our private souls, 
individuals coupled by free-will choice. 

Though we speak different tribal languages, 
fashioned by ancestral songs of the heart 
on two islands at the opposite ends 
of the spinning world, Java and Britannia, 
we speak one language with grammar of trust, 
attentive to shared plan of cordial growth. 

Devouring time, that thirsts for souls of gods, 
sparks passion to regenerate our souls 
in bodies of our children who spring bright 
on Phoenix wings from burning blood of hope, 
so we run laughing with swift-footed time 
to savor beauty of this life till death. 

Your gentle heart, within your glowing face 
painted by Nature with beauty of stars, 
ignores shifting fashions to project 
consistent wisdom as treasure of love 
that makes us wealthy in togetherness, 
because we choose each other to live well.