Veiled By Beautiful Lies
© Surazeus
2026 11 09

We follow strict routes of our daily lives
with our wild minds veiled by beautiful lies,
Tristan declares with flame-hot meteor voice,
so we create our fate with every choice
when we exercise force of our free will
that always leads me to apple tree hill.

Two men with guns follow his fading trail
with earnest intention to never fail
when they set out to capture faceless ghost
who relives drama of Paradise Lost
by limping wounded on the dusty plain
after leaping from the fast-moving train.

Gray shadow of his first featureless face
gleams on television screen without trace
since he becomes the new romantic horse
who trains forty years to master the Force,
then goes on mission to defeat the clown
who steals gold version of the thorny crown.

Turning the large glass television off,
Tristan decides to ignore mocking scoff
expressed by painted warrior on the wall,
then floats outside at the wild raven call
that shatters silence of the Texas heat
radiating from fence-wired fields of wheat.

Walking routes of his summer afternoon,
Tristan passes red-brick church of the moon
where thieves in suits calculate cash they scam
from faithful believers in the I Am
who hides in glow-clouds with nothing to say
to wounded people who desperately pray.

Building starship shaped like plastic pen cap,
Tristan soars swiftly to escape the trap
set by the power-obsessed god Voltar,
while riding in the red Volkswagen car
to swim with elves in the dam-informed lake
where he suddenly becomes more awake.

Observing quotidian nature of hope,
through which we find simple methods to cope,
Tristan draws weird image of the next phase
our bodies may evolve to map the maze
where he evades cruel demons in foul mood
to live safely free in the Brooding Wood.

Resurrected with soul of Lazarus,
Tristan flies far on wings of Icarus
so he can play grand role of Lucifer
while wearing crystal mask of Jupiter
when he journeys from ruins of Babylon
to build world empire from lush Oregon.

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Orpheus meets Isolde in front of the empty church in the small Texas town who asks him if he has seen Tristan, so they search together in the Twilight Zone.

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