Where To Dig Graves
© Surazeus
2025 11 14

My secret grave under the starry sky
protects me from the soundless dark of fate
which stares into vast hollow of my heart
with loving laughter of indifferent time
so all remorseful guilt of selfish hope
dissolves to terrible beauty of truth.

Unresting death of endless solitude
pretends to horrify my aching heart
with nothingness of my specialized self
so I play music on the turtle shell
bound tight with tendrils of taut harmony
since nothing I believe is ever true.

Beyond edge of my vision I perceive
unfocused ghost of honest arrogance
that fuels my endless journey somewhere else
to share my story with the faceless god
who stares at me from mindless stone of faith
till I explain how wind fills me with hope.

Exhausted from my endless quest for truth,
I lounge beneath the apple tree of trust
till all illusions of conceptual thoughts
dissolve to sudden swirls of splashing rain
which cleanses my love-wounded heart with facts
too brutal to destroy lies I believe.

I wish I could narrate with noble themes
random events of my fidgety play
through incoherent principles of fate,
yet I trudge lost with agitated faith
in restless circles till my anxious feet
blaze new way that bypasses paradise.

Blind postman who delivers messages
wears mask of Mercury I stole from death
with divine mission to heal broken hearts
who come to expect my visits each day
with packages of volatile regret
abandoned on the road to paradise.

Clutching diamond that glitters with bright stars,
I focus fierce attention of despair
on hope that divine light of its god eye
will guide my restless steps to paradise
where I would play role of the holy seer
who prophesies when lightning cracks the sky.

Curious about state of Earth today,
I drive my car from sea to shining sea
three thousand miles through countless little towns
to sell farmers and factory workers books
with secret code that helps them calculate
where to dig graves under the starry sky.

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Orpheus counts every grave that has ever been dug in the history of civilization to find the secret door to the Underworld.

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