Human Face Of Geryon
© Surazeus
2026 10 08

We cannot fear ambition of the heart
to transcend sorrow of soul-twisting pain
till we design new myth-contriving chart
that guides our leap through time portal of rain,
so we walk fields of lush Elysium
with noble vision of delirium.

Though not as brave is honest Heracles,
new-born as his contemporary clone,
I face the screaming ghost with psychic keys
who wears the human face of Geryon
because I want to know the arcane truth
that motivates reign of messiah sleuth.

I climb three steps to Heaven before dawn
to measure our indifferent universe
where I meet Pegasus on White House lawn
eating apples from Medusa the Nurse
who asks me if I know the Golden Way
that binds our lonely hearts in fertile play.

While crossing bleak waste land of Libya,
I throw sharp raven quill at Helios
who gives me Holy Grail of Sylvia,
then asks me of I know Prometheus,
but I just want to find the Promised Land
where Fortune doles fate with her Red Right Hand.

When Norax, son of Hermes, calls my name
with lunar melody through secret code,
I climb Parnassus to hex curse of fame,
but find Lyre of Hermes on signless road,
so I sing romantic tunes of blind faith
to woo humble daughter of the Star Wraith.

After I kill cruel giant Geryon
in battle against tyranny of greed,
I build with laughter of Hyperion
light house tower on cracked skull of his need
from which I rule world empire of free will
named Anglonesia for the Wisdom Hill.

While sailing down the River Phlegethon
to find apple garden in Tartarus,
I find shy Erytheia on the phone
arguing with the architect Sisyphus
about reconstructing the Parthenon
where I will rule Earth as Asterion.

When I wake at dawn from weird fantasy
that I wear human face of Geryon
with solemn quest to map the galaxy,
I play my role based on criterion
that I am temporary soul of light
conscious of its God Self in cosmic night.

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Orpheus celebrates when Anne Carson wins the Nobel Prize for Literature for her tale about the fallen angel who wears the human face of Geryon.

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