Chasing Vain Happiness
© Surazeus
2025 08 13

To fly to Heaven on the paper plane,
while searching for strange beauty of the plain,
I leap beyond limits of gold-brick walls
and tumble to Earth where blind angel crawls,
then stand and laugh at my own foolishness,
exhausted from chasing vain happiness.

If this mirror reflects ache of my heart
that correlates with fate of my star chart,
I wonder at the mask that hides my face
people buy and sell in the marketplace,
tricked by the mad princess of craftiness
impoverished from chasing vain happiness.

I want to own my own dream-fertilized land
to grow enough food with my blood-stained hand
so everyone in our nation can eat
instead of having to play trick or treat
when the rich acquire wealth through laziness,
bankrupted from chasing vain happiness.

To control the people of our great state
who clamor desperate at the pearly gate
I strike with punishment swift as the storm
and mete out reward to those who conform,
yet fear always impairs social progress,
depleted from chasing vain happiness.

Since strict demonic energy of hope
fuels aggressive methods I use to cope,
I follow winding river through the cove
past gate of the devil afraid of love
who trembles at spark of our jolliness,
bewildered from chasing vain happiness.

With ardent force of urgent innocence
I twist back forward without precedence
to realign conceptual state of mind
which I employ for yet-born souls to find
how not to falter from kind loneliness,
overwhelmed from chasing vain happiness.

Through haze of images programmed by words
I follow frantic flight of fearless birds
to study transient beauty of this world
embodied by sons of the cosmic herald
who guard hermetic code of loftiness,
justified from chasing vain happiness.

Since he rejects existence of non-being
through contradiction of the flightless wing,
he falls into the bottomless void of truth
which transforms him into messiah sleuth
who wears formless face of Parmenides,
mystified from chasing vain happiness.

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Orpheus lounges on porch of the public library to watch people hurry past on their way to work, then improvises song about chasing vain happiness.

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