Map The Promised Land
© Surazeus
2025 08 05

The stories we write in books of our hearts
preserve endless dreams from our memories
of journeys we navigate on star charts
designed with program code of psychic keys
that guide our quest to find the Promised Land
which we create with word-assertive hand.

Morpheus rises from wild swirling sea
with crystal sphere of wisdom in his brain,
and floats on demon wings of honesty
to drench the waste land in conceptual rain,
while weeping angels lose the Promised Land
that leaves them stranded on the waveless strand.

Electra gallops swift on Pegasus
toward castle crumbling from oblique despair
to behead tyrant son of Tantalus
with sacred sword known as Excalibur
before his greed can trash the Promised Land
in metaphor that smears his social brand.

Diogenes throws lamp against the wall
to light the burning bush Jehovah wields
in fight against code of the clarion call
that lures journalists to dark battlefields
in vain attempts to clean the Promised Land
corrupted by greed that blind prophets banned.

Belenus raises Wand of Zambor to the sky
to lead his people on the Freedom Road
after he freed them from cave of the spy
who forced wanderers to worship the toad
with command that we hide the Promised Land,
distracted by noise of the marching band.

Fortuna measures spooling thread of life
connecting me with love to my soulmate
who informs me that she will be my wife
because our choices determine our fate,
so I find job to map the Promised Land
to abyss which Bridge of Forgetfulness spanned.

Athena forges dragon bones of rage
as covers that bind Book of Destiny
from which Jupiter tears out my Life Page
to erase my empire from history
when he sends planes to bomb the Promised Land
so we wander in maze of the heartland.

Mercurius gives me lyre of timeless tales
so I sing epic of philosophers
that weighs accomplishments on cosmic scales
defined by survey of geographers,
so we unite to build the Promised Land
connected by channels of our broadband.

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Orpheus presides over grand feast of friends for the Endless Ones in his grandiose castle of sand on the faith-shifting beach by the Sea of Temporality.

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