Cage Of Global Fame
© Surazeus
2025 09 18

Awake in stillness of the timeless sea,
I sing impatience of colliding thoughts
to hear assertive voice of angry trees
describe bold future of the fallen fruit
that blooms into world empire of the mad
trapped in brave rituals of worship and war.

Two-blooded angel of the swirling mind
plots ancestral line of kind arrogance
to iterate through picture frame of faith
ingenious solution Phoebus designs
to trick the lonely people of the world
with obvious riddle of the eglantine.

I walk face-first in forest of respect
to understand illusions forged by fate
that stem from beauty of the perfect face
which mirrors mental fortitude of fear
employed by feral jesters to revise
constitutional law that guides our game.

Determined to construct my funeral bower
from tinsel bones of honest dinosaurs,
I chat with Death while strolling in the grove,
where apples fall into reluctant hands,
about how light escapes conceptual words
that trap me in the cage of global fame.

Assertive freedom of tactical speech
confuses children of the blinking screen
with artificial games of complex rules
designed to obliterate prideful fools
with soul-crushing facts of the dream machine
which cares not how the hungry heart may feel.

Yet I must wake from cruel complacency
about the falling bombs of liberty
which rearrange puzzle of history
so tyrants appear as heroes of good,
lauded for how well they exploit the poor
who crawl exhausted in the shining church.

Because the dead dance on fake monuments
with earnest faith in capital success
against relentless process of soul death
we play fear-frantic game of hide and seek
though we carry unpaid debts of the dead
when we evacuate temple of faith.

Involuntary plan to map the mind
drives me to madness of the lucky laugh
when I escape the cage of global fame
to walk the signless road of everywhere
before the second coming of the clown
who watches downcast Ophelia drown.

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Orpheus fights a thousand demons to free Ophelia from cage of global fame so they can enjoy the quiet live in their garden by the lake in the valley of the mountain of skulls.

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