Greatest Hero Who Laughs
© Surazeus
2025 07 19

The greatest hero in history of Earth
keeps crumbling into frail statue of dust,
so I paint his name on the highway sign
that leads the eager crowd of worshippers
to the huge mountain cave where he was born
where they all bow before his singing skull.

Lounging on the back porch of the old pub
beside the river where boats glide at dusk,
the greatest hero ever plays guitar
and sings sad ballad of the tragic fate
the hero always meets on path of life
while people drink beer and chat about sports.

Fingers dancing lithely on the typewriter,
the greatest hero who has never died
writes novels about the heroic fool
who always seems to fail at all he does
and hurts the woman who loves him with care
against the better judgment of her heart.

Fixing engines in the cluttered garage,
hands covered in grease from adjusting parts,
the greatest hero no one hears about
helps people get their cars back on the road
so they can go about their busy lives
driving in circles where gray rainbows cry.

Talking to the clock in trunk of the oak
that opens portals to the multiverse,
the greatest hero who wears mask of God
enters ring of stones in the forest glade
where Oberon and Titania host parties
to play the lyre of Mercury and sing.

Sailing his boat along the River Styx
to catch Cetus and roast his steaks for lunch,
the greatest hero fishing for the dragon
rescues Orpheus and Ophelia
from drowning in the flash flood from rain storms
and takes them to the slopes of Mount Parnassus.

Stringing the sacred Damul Bow of Buryeo,
which he finds in the jewel mines of Hades,
Orion fires arrow of authority
that pierces heart of the cruel dragon Smaug,
then challenges Jesus for the world throne
to rule the United Nations of Earth.

The greatest hero who laughs at blind death
stands guard at pearly gates of paradise
and stares at faces of people who pass
till they all blur into serpent of faith
that slithers hissing in the Tree of Life
as he punches the mirror of illusions.

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Orpheus finds Orion guarding the gates of paradise in a daze from the vast and endless flow of human history where all fights for power end when everyone dies.

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