Water Sings About Life

Water Sings About Life
© Surazeus
2026 08 16

The intense way water sings about life 
may seem strange to the human without ears 
who steals pieces of the puzzle from death 
to build collective bridge of happiness 
so wanderers may cross the dark abyss 
that proves the blue sky always understands. 

Inhaling frantic hope to evade death, 
Marcella runs along the dusty road 
forever toward the house of broken doors 
till she floats up into the lattice sky 
and hangs suspended from hand of the tree 
that laughs with crack of thunder when she wakes. 

Whatever she says to the humble wall, 
that readjusts itself with shifting words, 
may vanish in sad silence of new books 
that no one ever reads till end of time, 
yet someone always knocks on her front door 
with jar of something they would like to sell. 

Elected to manage the farming town 
her ancestors colonized with the gun, 
Marcella runs the world from city hall 
by selling water from the serpent well 
as if heroic deeds are eulogized 
by the glass-faced princess of everywhere. 

After filling one hundred books with words 
that hum with laughter of the summer rain, 
Marcella walks around the broken house 
one thousand times to find the secret door 
that leads her to the room of howling wind 
as if she could reverse the curse of fate. 

When she floats in the great ocean at dawn 
to become drop of water in the flood 
that cleanses excess sorrow from the land, 
she finds her darkness enclosed in her heart, 
yet still Marcella weaves new coronet 
from thorn-sharp stems of roses she must wear. 

Selling gold coffin of the vampire god 
to the movie star who always plays king, 
Marcella gathers sunlight with frail hands 
in brave experiment to fool cruel death, 
but children never come home from their school 
so she lies under bridge of fate and cries. 

Based on how hungry people calculate 
pride through manufactured nobility, 
Marcella counts the many shades of blue 
that gleam from restless sorrow of sea waves 
so she can frame the nothingness of death 
with beautiful romance tales no one lives.