Mirror Mask Of Sisyphus
© Surazeus
2025 03 22

Hieroglyphs inscribed on lightning-cracked stones
depict the Raven God with thirteen eyes
leading refugees of home-blasting war
through narrow roadless mountain vale of hope
to find dream garden of the Promised Land
hidden behind enormous walls of wealth.

To walk backward in future of the mind
where television screens in trunks of trees
present whole history of the human race,
I wear the mirror mask of Sisyphus
to stand before statue of Pegasus
and pose for celebrity photographs.

While marching in the band of howling clowns
in oval stadium full of cheering crowds,
we gather fragments of shattered world views
to build abstract sculptures of twisted bars
which represent the leading characters
performing roles in our disastrous show.

Organic forms of plants and animals
emerge from pungent passion of the soil
to play the subtle personality
sensitive to ever-shifting terrain
in social drama fraught with fake respect
that changes lives with contrived honesty.

Traveling through space of transforming time
to work in garden of flowers and herbs,
I consider how the stranger might feel
on reversing tide of conceptual hope
where I shall sing plain prophecies of doom
while taking stock of truth designed by fate.

Wolves surround the wounded king in the snow
who prays to the rising moon with fierce hope
to extract lithium from old rugged hills
where every honest poet in the world
wanders among cactus of blind skeletons
who dance on graves of thieving oligarchs.

If we remember her electric laugh
that rings cathedral bells of self-control,
we might soon comprehend why colors cry
to robot angels of Elysium
who sell stolen feathers of Pegasus
to curious tourists from land of the brave.

Though I escape blank page of the dream book
I will play better self my heart designs
to steal the thorny crown of sacrifice
from head of the god who eats lightning strikes
so he can become human before he dies
and his atoms formulate flowing streams.

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Orpheus buys mirror mask of Sisyphus from Goodwill in the small university town to prank his best friend who lost her government job.

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