Sadness Is Not
© Surazeus
2025 12 28

Sadness is not trees reaching for the sky
with existential angst of hungry hope
for something more beyond this transient life
while knowing we are temporary beams
of atoms waking from First Flash of Love
who end rotting in graves of arrogance.

Sadness is not birds beating wings of love
with innocent respect for swirls of air
which fuels organic memories of strife
against enclosing darkness of despair
that crushes bodies of organic light
though we sing one hour of eternity.

Sadness is not horses galloping swift
along time-curving shores of sparkling streams
with eager passion to explore the Earth
till singing monkeys bind their fateful flight
to build sprawling empires of thought control
we expand with piston engines of hope.

Sadness is not cows plowing fertile soul
with steady strength of hungry innocence
when wingless angels assemble in choirs
to sing hymns on ziggurats of desire
where Ishtar weaves Creation of the World
when she lifts her son Jesus to the stars.

Sadness is not devils wearing gray suits
to manage finances through global banks
for faceless kings in cyber palaces
who enslave world workers with credit cards
through zephyrine power of cryptic runes
while they cheer for Venus with golden curls.

Sadness is not angels wearing blue jeans
to fix piston engines of auric cars
that workers drive to find paradise lost
in putrid fog from fervent factories
where holy virgin of seraphic grace
wields Sword of Justice against tyranny.

Sadness is not computers scanning brains
of organic creatures with conscious souls
based on artificial intelligence
to analyze nature of perceived things
compose of atoms swerving in the void
that form Ideas which the Ungod dreams.

Sadness is not ghosts seeking to connect
fragile bodies with games of Providence
as shadows of the well-remembered dead
who haunt us as the absence of their being
so we share halcyon days of discipline
to nurture children of Imperium.

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Orpheus strums lyre of Mercury while Venus sings Songs of Innocence and of Experience on her Eras Tour around the world.

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