Revelation Of The Ardent Nurse
© Surazeus
2026 10 28

Though my soul has not yet drifted away
on quick waters of ever-changing time,
I measure alterations by the day
to calculate how soon the deathly chime
will vibrate soft melody of my name
so I die before I am trapped by fame.

Now withered with strange wisdom of the tree,
I lounge in my pedantic Babylon
and ponder how our actions make us free
while plotting how to retake Avalon
where my ancestor reigned as Fairy Queen
till she was replaced by the Dream Machine.

With stylus, forged from the same meteor stone
which Arthur used to hone Excalibur,
I wrote formulas on tablets which zone
my legal right to reign as Lucifer
because I bear Lamp of Diogenes
to wield the thirteen magic Spirit Keys.

I learn to walk upright in ocean waves
after I lose my coiled tree-swinging tail,
so now I chant hymns in shadow-weird caves
while Helios herds milk cows in the dale
through holy act on which empires are built
that correct actions through brave sense of guilt.

Phoebus hoops civilization with peace
through illusion of justice based on rules,
so kings judge deeds enforced by thought police
while farmers produce food with humble tools,
yet hermits search for God on Mount Meru
outside frame of our religious world view.

Fanatics frightened by liberal self worth
attempt to crucify the humble clown,
but his descendants thrive to conquer Earth
by adding jewels to his thorny crown,
so Rapunzel sings in Tower of Troy
while Hamlet wanders the waste land of joy.

Since I am still running to Paradise
with the last penny of faith in my cap,
I find fame is won by toss of the dice
that turns its golden cage into the trap
from which the wise seer can never escape
though all the spinning world is their dreamscape.

Before the second coming of the ghost,
born from bitter witch of the city slum,
I eat good breakfast of fried egg on toast,
then sail Titanic to Byzantium
with revelation of the ardent nurse
who programs our view of the universe.

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Orpheus climbs Mount Meru where he finds the ardent nurse as she meditates with Shiva and chants hymn that hypnotizes the Serpent of the Knowledge Tree.

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