Mask From Sumatra Island
© Surazeus
2025 05 25

The demonic mask from Sumatra Island
gazes down at me from clean painted wall,
so I become the chipmunk on the lawn
eating seeds, mushrooms, worms, insects, and nuts,
eyes gleaming with the softness of spring evening
while the robin wonders why she is sad.

When Sri Devi dances in twilight glow
among oak trees in Appalachian hills,
her hands wrap silence of shadows in books,
that sing with prayers of crickets in backyards,
recording story of the human race
with jagged runes on bones of dinosaurs.

The wingless angel with the rotten orange
walks crowded streets of town in twilight glow,
his gaunt face hungry for the fateful cry
Jesus shouts from his palace in the sky
which dangles on wired cable of fierce faith
above lush valley of the singing skulls.

The silver river shimmers with sunrays
beneath the ancient bridge of hopefulness
where children play along the bushy shore,
and old men fish with meditative calm
to catch the hidden dragon of world power
that rises on frail crystal wings of time.

Half-functioning brain of the robot clown
records how meat-bags lacking angel wings
pursue bright rainbows of their fantasies
while expecting rich reward for good deeds,
then analyzes their obsessive strife
to accumulate dim shadows of wealth.

With magic feeling of electric faith
I change the future to reflect the past
in tumbling tumult of swift social change
based on conceptual design of my dreams
arranged in digest of organized tales
stored in library of the lonely moon.

Though I cannot read the secretive hearts
of people I interact with each day,
I remember sharp scent of apple trees
that conjures memories of years long ago
when we would kiss beside the sparkling stream
and talk about the Heaven we create.

Uncertain comment of the gliding owl
translates thunderous voice of the roaming storm
to holy song of rain on asphalt streets
that shimmer gold beneath slender streetlamps
where I find hanging in the evening glow
my demonic mask from Sumatra Island.

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Orpheus studies the demonic mask from Sumatra Island to analyze cultural content of its inherent social value of communal power.

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