Dig Up Statue Of Phoebus
© Surazeus
2025 07 06

Awake in waste land of prophets and fools,
who sing hallelujah to empty skies,
I climb the mountain of the burning bush
with lantern of wisdom in curious hand
to find the temple of the weeping god
who never seems to remember my name.

Honest laughter of the tear-fractured stone
echoes wildly weird in the hollow land,
so I draw map on the world in white sand
to contemplate strict rules of leadership
that greedy oligarchs never consult
while I play chess with the crocodile god.

Delicate petals of the Hawthorne tree
lure me to backyard of the crumbling church
to dig up statue of Phoebus from mud
so I can ask him for meaning of life,
but he just stares beyond eternity
to prove our souls are temporary flames.

Though I get lost in labyrinth of lies
while searching for the secret Promised Land,
I find the Tree of Knowledge by the cave
where emaciated ghosts of mining slaves
follow enchanting music of my lyre
to sit weeping under the apple tree.

The serpent eye in the mirror of truth
reflects timeless snow of forgetfulness
that shrouds broken skulls of warriors and kings
in Elysian fields where hyacinth blooms
but conceals scorpions of arrogant faith
who preach salvation of the weeping god.

Through telescope of formulated truth
I see every star in the universe
that ever swirls from energy of hope
so I can trace trajectory of fate
which prophets calculate with measured words
when mirror of our world view fragmentates.

Fired by rebirth of wonder in the world,
I walk across the waste land of the mind
with American-Eagle wings of my heart
to navigate Age of Anxiety
with lantern Diogenes gave to me,
then play God on your television screen.

Since faith imperils my intrusive heart
with cultural artifacts designed by faith,
I baptize my ghost in the River Styx
when Minerva crowns me King of Nowhere,
then we eat hamburgers in the backyard
to celebrate rise of Zarathia.

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Orpheus cleans the statue of Phoebus, then places it on a pedestal in the Zarathian Museum of Tellurian Art.

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