We Build Another Troy
© Surazeus
2026 08 21

From Troy our urgent mission to survive
drives our wheeled train of homeless refugees
to follow Venus sailing her moon boat
across abyss of hope to colonize
pristine gardens where ghost of Eden gleams
from dire emergency of tolling bells.

Through telescope of innocent respect
we search for secret code in random stars
that map our noble purpose with faint flash
assembled in grand puzzle of desire
to measure slow sequential flow of time
beyond intense unraveling of fate.

Indifferent audience of angels laughs
at cosmic foibles noble heroes play
while sanctioned by brave eagles of world war
who lead parades of our triumphant loss
against dark shadows in reflected glass
of faceless enemies we fight each day.

Of my first disobedience against pride,
and fruit of my achievements soured by guilt,
I sing with harp of David in my hands
while lost in yellow woods of urgent faith
where I pause at cracked tomb of Oedipus
to ponder failure of our social dream.

Wise oracle of concupiscent grace
expresses stoic principles of calm
with incandescent dance of mental vibes
at trick of fame by tarot cards dealt lies
exposing counterfeit creeds angels sell
through prank of toxic masculinity.

When kingdom-killing prophet of the laugh
reveals sly bluff the Blindman conjugates,
we strive to fathom absolute expanse
of spaceless straightness tangled by fake words
that throws our bodies on light curve of change
so we hold hands from gates of paradise.

Each time grand towers of bright Ilium
are burned by agents of cruel tyranny,
we build another Troy with bleeding hands
to manage empire of corporate stores
that binds our paths through corridors of time
till we assemble in one church of wealth.

When mantra-minded flower child of fate
arrives from Underworld of bitter truth
to fix machinery of the star-wound soul,
contrived as psychic dynamo of faith,
I publish odes of sorrow on the wall
so ghosts of heroes hide in wordless books.

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Orpheus meets his buddy XJ Kennedy at tomb of Oedipus where they play chess and talk about how airplanes resemble cherubim with silver wings.

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