Jester Of The Greedy King
© Surazeus
2025 09 01

Beneath soft laughter of the maple tree
we try to discover meaning of life
encased in fragile stones of river beds
disguised as Grecian statues of the mind,
so we hide honesty in gloom of faith
with impossible light of time-bound hearts.

Though our brains are full of arrogant gods
that mirror those trapped in conceptual stars,
we walk together in the maze of myths
with project to dismantle attitudes
that fool some fearful people to believe
they are much better than the rest of us.

Though honesty of the writer is praised
yet they freeze in cold house of poverty
when snow suffocates the world in despair
as they write bitter truth about the world
with the swan-feather quill on fragile page
that would keep them warm burned in the stone hearth.

My brain orbits the Earth faster than light
that splits metallic symbol of my heart
with subtle reference to the puzzling code
which penetrates obscure frame of the weird,
inscrutable hex designed by the ghost
to misdirect attention of the sleuth.

The father kneels before the weeping child
with calm compassion of the basilisk,
inspired by jester of the greedy king
to teach him prayer that soothes the frantic heart,
but he hears no one ever answer back
despite his fervent obsession with faith.

Lost-distance search of the desperate devil
shrinks long unspooling road of botched abuse
with stark compression unraveling truth
through sacred bloodline of the holy grail
from which I drink communion wine of rage
with lavish promise of the howling owl.

Uncanny promise of enduring faith
compressed at core of music by despair
reveals happy ending of fairytales
despised by children of the bloody moon
who throw gold balls at engine of the car
that hangs upside down from the Tree of Lies.

Through dull condition of the afterlife
we lounge without concern of refugees
in deserted palace of the mad king
who burns the holy books of bitter gods
while drinking communion wine at eclipse
that erases our bodies from the world.

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Orpheus plays jester of the greedy king with intention to eviscerate Midas who has crowned himself dictator of the Earth.

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