Statues Buried In Mud
© Surazeus
2026 01 18

We build our empire of contending states
on grand revelation that liberty
should be enjoyed by every dreaming soul
born from the fertile womb of Mother Earth
to share fruits of our labor in the fields
while we ensure equal justice for all.

Yet portraits of gods on museum walls
display no delicate features in forms
that mimic bodies humans animate,
nor resemble statutes buried in mud
by avalanche of fate which cracks stone walls
that should pertain to code of paradise.

Convinced the secret treasure, Jesus forged
from meteor that almost cracked the Earth,
is buried lost in wind-lashed field of snow,
young girl travels halfway around the globe
to walk the treeless waste land of deep hope
where she finds nothing more than one shy deer.

At thrilling conclusion of her vain quest
she finds quaint haiku written in the snow
by feet of dark-eyed Junco that describe
how friends gather around warm glowing hearth
and linger late in moonlight to share tales
from their childhoods in Television Land.

Amused that she misunderstood cruel joke
she heard from Tengu in the mountain cave,
young girl sails Argos east across the sea
to ask the bearded men beside the lake
how we can trust intuition of signs
based on clever twist of dire prophecies.

Then just as she stands on the frozen hill
to watch the train glide slowly with the sun,
she feels how cherished daughters of our hearts
are incarnations of the ancient Earth,
so she cries out to beauty of the light
despite how truth is always in our eyes.

Because the ocean bares sharp teeth of ice
we ask if mothers always know the way,
appalled by bitter anguish of soul birth
when seeds break open with demonic faith
that sucks sweet sorrow of the endless rain
each hour we are reborn to thrive and die.

Beneath the oak that blooms on river shore,
her father planted at hour of her birth,
Persephone measures deliberate wind
as breath transformed from ravens into words
which teach us how to taste cerulean fruit
because we know that all great empires fall.

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Orpheus finds Persephone in Television Land where plays the Manic Pixie Dream Girl in the tale of her quest to find the secret treasure of truth.

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