Frantic Fairy Faith

Frantic Fairy Faith
© Surazeus
2026 10 28

Aroused by unkept memories of light 
reflected by slow flutter of oak leaves, 
I weave the spin of bike wheels with the flash 
of stops signs where ravens never assert 
strange answers to imponderable concerns 
that milk smells sweetest in the cereal bowl. 

Startled by unsung melodies of love 
that crackle on the untuned radio, 
I imagine that the round blue sky-dome 
is one enormous eye of innocence, 
like my eye with green isle inside blue sea 
where people live in memories of their hopes. 

Alert to unspooled stories in old books 
that wait for magic of my eyes to glow, 
I replay half-cut scenes of my short life 
to map my journey to the somewhere else 
from mountain far away where I was born 
as half-told tale of frantic fairy faith. 

Though I have stumbled randomly awake 
through decades of existence to my state 
of present being in small town of desire, 
I weave coherent tapestry of fate 
that narrates my life as some noble quest 
to become who I always choose to be. 

Enormous silence of eternal now, 
that hovers over me as cloud of light, 
slowly flaps excessive wings of words, 
so I gaze in eyes of my private Seraph 
whose face reflects, in one mask of the Self, 
all my ancestors who designed my being. 

Though split by storm of arrogant regret, 
the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil 
still provides fresh apples for me to eat, 
so I join sweet Ophelia by the lake 
who bakes apple pie from our wounded hearts 
which we share with Sigmund and Beowulf. 

Alone in vast white-walled museum room, 
I assemble from fragments of old tales, 
and news stories about tragic events, 
perceptive puzzles of the human soul 
that almost mirror psychic ghost of hope 
who haunts our dawns with wails of wordless prayers. 

Clouds float above broad field of barns and poles 
where cows graze among trees by the dirt road, 
this firm foundation of productive pain 
from which empires rise through labor of our hands 
when we weave memories of humble strife 
in religious tale of the sacrificed king.