Headless Idol Of Helios
© Surazeus
2025 10 23

I hide regret for how I lose my brain
when it detaches and floats among clouds
with haughty disdain of the red balloon
that drifts down to the hidden Cyclades
to visit strange land where Poseidon rules
through azure waters of unyielding hope.

Since I am admired son of Helios,
removed from political games of power
long fought between contending gangs of thieves,
I never meddle in daily affairs
when money clerks shout in grand temple halls
for whose social program defines the state.

Though I have no idea what to do
with bag of wind Aeolus sold to me
to send our merchant ships across the sea,
I give my precious pearls of solitude
to every goddess I meet on the beach
where they dance with abandon of the lost.

From Babylon to Phoenicia to Rome
I build great empire with the golden sword
that Justice wields according to my whim
to track where rebellious Icarus flies
in revolution of the working class
against divine kings in castles of glass.

Shocked by the ardent gaze of holy fools,
who replace my will with communal rules,
I coil aggressive sorrow of my heart
with lithe serpentine grace of honest greed
around the Tree of Knowledge to proclaim
that I will sell my kingdom for your horse.

Entangled by confusing states of mind
between empire and local farming rights,
I gather trash of lies strewn along roads
while reciting riddles of social codes
designed by Homer to explain why gods
deign to play with proud humans in chess games.

Stuck somewhere deep in maze of national myths
about superior wisdom of my race,
I study headless idol of Helios
that toppled from its lofty pedestal
when silver airplanes of angels dropped bombs
in world war that shattered Kingdom of God.

Wandering with my Muse in pine-thick hills
around holy Mount Takoma white with snow,
I find the long-lost lyre of Mercury
so I walk east along ancestral roads
from Oregon to Avalon to Rome
and sing about the Fall of Icarus.

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Orpheus lectures about the Fall of Icarus in the world war that shattered the Kingdom of God to students at the University of Zarathia.

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