Must Reckon With Fire
© Surazeus
2026 01 14

If I must reckon with fire of the word
that burns the mind with extravagant faith,
I may elevate with riddles of truth
vulnerable passion of protective pride
because I crave closeness between our hearts
that binds our self-reliance into love.

Each word I carve on trunk of the Time Tree
presents blueprint so the wild voice may draw
inner beauty with emotional strike
of blatant precision that tips my heart
into self-indulgence of selfless love
by which I model how great men behave.

Rooted in performance through empathy
my way of life belabors honesty
by working in the orchard of the lost
who steal their faces from forgotten myths
then sleep in chicken sheds with angel wings,
caged by economic necessity.

Yet while I trudge across the frozen lake
on lucid mirror of infinity,
I stop and gaze at vast array of stars
that do not calculate what fate I live
when I feel the complete universe shift
sideways at glimmer of the wordless book.

Winter stars pierce my tender breast of faith
with surprising laughter twirled by swan wings
so I grasp morning light with blurred respect
when I zoom out perspective to full scope
that collects stories in anthology
devised as scripture for the refugee.

Illiterate sky of naked alphabets
expands so far beyond my conscious shell
that I consider how my body floats,
mythologized by billowed gravity
since I am young and thus expect to know
how far across the country I must go.

I will be nothing after I am dead
as head of brave Goliath on the plate,
amused by reverence for heroic deeds
that save the tribe from monstrous tyranny
before the hour of change has run its course
since I must reckon with fire of the word.

I see true essence of all things that are
because they vibrate with word energy
through brave attentive flight of honey bees
that show me how to fight the tyrant king
and free our people from his grasping greed
that dissipates in age of frantic peace.

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Orpheus skates across the frozen lake of dream-time to discover how first mother of mankind invented words of fire to warm our hearts.

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