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.

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Orpheus accompanies the River God who follows the river of star eyes from the mountain to the sea while he visits every home along the route of his authority.

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