Sibyl Visits War Zones
© Surazeus
2026 09 08

Through reports in documentary voice
by which I register brutal events
when men battle men to control the land,
I unspeak true lies about the regime
rising from heart of darkness to enforce
divine laws of their cloud-based thunder god.

Airplanes that angels fly among the clouds
obey command of God to bomb our homes
with thunderbolt as missile forged from steel
on mission to secure with law of fear
global hegemon of our empire creed
that we bring freedom to poor lands of slaves.

When Sibyl wearing mask of providence
confronts uncertain place in game of thrones,
which prophets dare assert with riddled verse
through inexhaustible faith in the truth,
King Midas aims toy gun straight at her head
and whispers pow, then snickers, blind with fear.

While Sibyl walks in field of severed ears
that hear commands of tyrants without curse,
she chants with arduous intensity
polished proverbs from ancient holy book
that Tutankhamen wrote with trembling hand
to sweep streets of the city maze with prayers.

When Sibyl visits war zones of the world,
with camera to document harsh crimes
of Eden Angels armed with flaming swords,
she tries to record with cute fairy tales
suffering of the people in mountain towns
who hold burnt photographs of faceless ghosts.

Translucent language of the wounded heart
expresses tales of witness in bookstores
to raise awareness of fascists regimes
that trample rights of people in the street
with hope to catalyze action through faith
that justice will prevail through code of fate.

Amid smoking ruins of bombed-out towns,
where children gather tattered photographs
from mangled hands of zombies in the rubble,
brave Sibyl documents harsh tyranny
that captures barbarism of cruel men
who dwell in mansions built from bones of farmers.

Extracting stone of ennui from her brain,
with hands stained gold from blood of fallen gods,
fierce Sybil builds grand palace of concern
to house scriptorium of the Jester Seer
who throws fractured mask of authority
before locked doors of cathedrals, and laughs.

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Orpheus joins Sibyl on her trip to the Holy Land where she documents how beautiful angels guard the fragile bodies of humans lost in the waste land as refugees of war.

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