Ever-Smiling Maid
© Surazeus
2025 06 28

The dirt-brown donkey with electric eyes
seeks shade on the sun-blazed hilltop in Spain
beside the small white chapel with no door
where the ever-smiling maid of the well
speaks to glowing stones of the white abyss
about the homeland where the murdered dwell.

The one-eyed boy with arrow in his heart
turns away from the ever-smiling maid
because he feels his crippled state of being
is heavy burden she must bear with pain,
but she grabs his arm with electric eyes
and declares how they are on the same team.

Together side by side on road of life
we will face all the hardships of the world
and support each other with loyal faith
as we push through the bitter storms of fear
so we emerge from waste land of despair
to stand in paradise of calm respect.

We share resolve encouraging our hearts
to build our life from promise of true love,
though road we walked is littered with regrets
and road we blaze is veiled with blinding fear,
for we share glowing bead of self-respect
that helps us find each other in the gloom.

Holding hands with firm resolve of shared faith,
both one-eyed boy and ever-smiling maid
advance together on uncertain road
without knowing what dangers lie ahead,
for even if their souls are crushed by fate
they choose this path together to the end.

When nine knights in shining armor appear
on noble horses prancing with grand pride,
the young couple walking the dusty road
move aside and bow with humble respect,
but the good knights decide with sneers of greed
they want to take the maid as their cute pet.

When the one-eyed boy tries to stop their deed
they crucify him on dead apple tree,
so the ever-smiling maid runs away
but stumbles at edge of the windy cliff,
tears streaming down her cheeks with bitter angst
to see the boy she loves suffering in pain.

Hanging crucified on the twisted tree,
the one-eyed boy who grasps the snake of love
screams in despair when ever-smiling maid
leaps off the cliff and soars into the sky
as she transforms into the sparrowhawk
who bears his fractured skull back up to Heaven.

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Orpheus finds the skeleton of Odin hanging on the tree and the skeleton of Minerva at the bottom of the cliff, so he buries them in the chapel where a donkey seeks shade from the heat.

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