Ghosts Trapped In Wells
© Surazeus
2026 04 26

Associated works of trashed respect
delude the brave to believe their strong souls
need no wings to escape death. Ardent faith
fails to frame fantasy with real thought codes
as if sparrows are no longer realists
who translate divine truth for troubadours.

Fountains in city squares ask loyalists
to find and map rebels on hidden roads.
Mothers, who linger without tears in doors
of vain hope, knit sweaters for the frail wraith
weeping in the garden. Demons expect
everyone to memorize their new roles.

Mixed up with pieces of puzzles, unsolved
by blind children who invent languages,
my private words escape from fragile shells
of subjective truth. I prefer to swim
deep into blue silence of the Dream Sea
to find your name tangled in cable wires.

Therefore, fill my holy grail to the brim
so I may drink blood from ghosts trapped in wells
of serpentine runes. Death directs mute choirs
of angels who perform as hostages.
I like to study life forms that evolved
fish to wingless angel, which designs Me.

Exceptional skill in weaving stale words
in vibrant tapestries of fairy tales
traps the jester in quest to explain why.
Yet the young policeman in the small town
believes his mission to be just the same
as the one Superman performs on stage.

Since we are trapped in our commercial game
of purchasing products from the grim clown,
we will barbecue demons in the cage
of honesty. Icarus learns to fly
by jumping off the cliff of hungry whales
who ask Jesus if he can make them birds.

Reverse psychology will never work
on flamboyant Bacchus in scarlet gown
who cries in the kitchen. Electric clock
that mutates above the castle fireplace
sternly asks him why he abandoned Eve
halfway up the mountain in freezing snow.

While baking apple pies by shipping dock,
Eve spies Bacchus who pretends not to lurk
in the bookstore where he buys human face
to fool the Furies. They attend the show
starring the Ballerina and the Clown,
yet no one in the audience wants to grieve.

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Orpheus works as couples counselor when Bacchus and Eve attend therapy sessions to work out their issues after his unintentional Alpine Divorce.

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