Crippled Wing Of Fire

Crippled Wing Of Fire
© Surazeus
2026 09 29

Forbidden sorrow of the cherry tree 
reveals sweet nothingness of urgency 
that spurs my climb in tangled certainty 
from dissolution of the river flow 
that casts me paralyzed in comfort snow 
since love diminishes my anguished pain. 

Soft pink of dawn reveals my long-lost home 
en route to unconsoling ocean shore 
where I am shadow of my mute desire, 
face glowing rose from crippled wing of fire 
that concentrates my numbing loneliness 
as swan that glides on mirror of my mind. 

Unburdened kindness of the leafless tree 
that resurrects brave dinosaurs of love 
inspires strange wonder of my swollen mind 
to ponder shrieks of gulls in frantic breeze 
that flicker in wide circles of concern 
though children invent new systems of state. 

Red rabbit of my half-excited heart 
darts swift through endless maze of wordless prayers 
that young girls whisper in the doorless church 
while washing speckled hands in bowls of oil 
which they smear in black words on courtroom walls 
to indicate precisely what they mean. 

She hides her stories in the broken box 
beneath worn dresses on the attic shelf 
which then transform to zombies of desire 
that wander buzzing streets of afternoon 
where carpenters repair our broken homes 
while devils fix electric wires of faith. 

Through open window of her wounded heart 
she hears sad crickets of apocalypse 
sing all night long about the formula 
defining process of soul gravity 
that drives celestial bodies to transcend 
market stalls where angels sell lemonade. 

Through gaps of naked trees on hill of skulls 
the full moon shimmers with ten billion eyes 
because we see ourselves in how it smiles, 
distorting concept of the human soul 
that dissipates to nothing when we die 
because our atoms form bodies again. 

Alert to shocking insult of the stone, 
she stares at ocean waves of restless rage 
that sloshes inside porcelain teacup 
as she floats up in white-lace wedding dress 
and hovers with enormous angel wings 
above the world that feels her suffering.