Lantern Of Lost Hope
© Surazeus
2025 02 07

First key word that opens locked door of thought
flashes with starlight in shallow Face Pool
to lure with eerie melody of hope
blind souls who wander roadless woods of fate
with lantern of lost hope in trembling hands
till they vanish in voice of nothingness.

Carla laughs while she knocks at the locked door
because no one answers her frantic call,
so she places her Death Book on the floor,
then leans gasping for breath against the wall
with lantern of lost hope in broken heart
to draw map of her dreams on wyrd star chart.

Jesse sits on tree stump in rain-wet field
after chopping Tree of Knowledge with ax
polished sharp on dragon bones of despair
to ask the quick sharp-tailed sandpiper why
with lantern of lost hope in both his eyes
he cannot see the angel of star fire.

Carla mumbles that twigs and brambles tear
hem of her dress as she tromps in dark woods
to find cave of the television bear
named Grendel who haunts quiet neighborhoods
with lantern of lost hope that shimmers gold
of undulating rays through time-space fold.

Jesse teaches his clever son David
how to sling stones with a taut leather strap
when they go hunting in Broceliande
where Grendel steals computers from the store
with lantern of lost hope after midnight
who mocks young shepherd security guard.

Carla stops in the quaint white-steepled church
where old Goliath is mopping the floor
to ask questions about the Holy Ghost,
so they sing the twenty-third psalm, and pray
with lantern of lost hope under the cross,
then share feelings about maternal loss.

Jesse finds sandal Eurydice wore
while dancing to her wedding in Stonehenge,
and weeps that she will sing and dance no more,
then sets on her shrine the last sacred orange
with lantern of lost hope lighting her tomb
to write obscure prophecy of world doom.

Carla rides the bus to Elysium
two seats behind Grendel and Artemis
who talk about the novel Moby Dick,
how the White Whale represents hostile Nature
with lantern of lost hope in his stomach
where Jonah asks Kwan Yin to marry him.

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