River of Star Eyes

River of Star Eyes
© Surazeus
2026 11 01

Seeking truth in strange laughter of the wind, 
we swim as one in river of star eyes 
while silvan pipes of supple susurrance 
rustles leaves of our hearts with quiescence 
so we transcend obdurance of despair 
with love that expands our celestial wings. 

Because the sea can almost hear my song 
unvoiced by blind amazement, intricate 
with quickened vacancy of primal thought, 
I ask the dead to tell me tragic tales 
trapped in their bodies with aggressive calm, 
but they encase their secrets in our skulls. 

Revived by harsh November rain at dawn, 
that tricks my cerebellum to record 
heart-aching songs for immortality 
no conscious being can win, I scale vast bulge 
of psychic blossoming with bold surprise, 
but hang above abyss of nothingness. 

Inspired by passion of my foolish youth 
to reach beyond bounds of my spurious brain, 
I catch hold tight to motion time extends 
with germinal regret of blind mistakes, 
entranced by languorous music of crickets 
dispersed by sudden flash of bitter rain. 

Despair delays ascension of my soul 
against primordial fragrance fate enrolls 
to trick our minds that we could live forever, 
yet I decide to hide, beneath the stone, 
heart wounded by expansive sense of time 
with bland unwillingness to escape death. 

We cannot live play of our lives again 
though we are driven by ancestral ache 
of slow decay in fractured bones of faith, 
so we assert our right to live this hour 
by pacing boundless space of everywhere 
with haughty courage of our bloodied feet. 

Gnarled branches of the orchard grab my heart 
at sudden flash of bullets from dawn sun, 
reborn as brave metallic bees that teach 
my body to enclose against attack 
when I lie numb on bulging globe of fate 
till soil transforms my soul to flowered breath. 

Since nothing matters in game of false fame, 
except expression of the lonely heart, 
I sit alone beneath moon-favored oak 
and sing about strange beauty of this world 
that swirls away in river of star eyes 
till I am nothing but the wind on water.