Weird Archive Of Desire
© Surazeus
2026 07 25

When the small oak-wood horse chess piece falls down
and clatters on the marble temple floor,
Robert leaps to his feet and turns around
just as five men with spears break through the door
to eliminate him from Game of Power,
from tale he stores in archive of desire.

Ignoring assassins with spears of hate,
Robert retrieves horse chess piece from the floor,
and contemplates how mankind tames the horse,
befriending wing-foot angels of the plains
with apples from Sarmatian mountain range,
as we explore weird archive of desire.

Somersaulting from temple of dead gods
where assassins freeze in statues of stone,
Robert skips jauntily along the street,
and whistles merrily down to the dock
where he sails river boat out to the sea
with plan to ransack archive of desire.

After walking around the spinning world
ten thousand years on winding river shores,
Robert transforms from wily trickster hero
to sad old man with gray hair and weak eyes
trudging guilt-stricken in our godless world
on quest to restore archive of desire.

Yet ghostly goddess of wisdom and truth
remains beside him on the signless road
as faceless shadow of Suffering Widow
who waits at home in vain for many years
till he arrives as beggar at her door
with books he stole from archive of desire.

Breathing deep gentle breath of Zephyrus,
Robert joins Saturn on long pilgrimage
who leaves Arcadia with the alphabet
and builds Pallantium on Happy Wolf Hill
where fierce Juturna tends Fountain of Faith
that springs with light from archive of desire.

Kneeling before temple of the laughing tree,
Robert offers diamond from Cave of Pluto
to sweet-voiced Carmenta, daughter of Hermes,
who blushes and agrees to marry him
once he is ordained pastor of their church,
assigned to maintain archive of desire.

Returning home to house his father built,
Robert finds Herilus tending the garden,
so they embrace after many long years,
then sit beneath the willow and drink wine
while sharing tragic tale of Icarus
whose wings are kept in archive of desire.

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Orpheus joins Robert and Telemachus in journey across the see to find their fathers who got lost on the way home from world war of the laughing horse.

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