Dark Animal Of Fear
© Surazeus
2025 11 09

Dark animal of fear stalks empty homes
wracked by incessant winds of hungry hope,
so I read stories backward from the end
to calculate how far we have to fall
as institutions of our empire state
collapse in anguish of religious faith.

Taking advantage of my second chance,
I escape to sacred country of Death
where trembling wren of my heart sings of hope
that faceless ghosts breathing celestial light
blaze new roads for the still-living to follow
so we can manage madness of the heart.

I find my house at the end of the world
after walking ten times around the globe,
but, just as roots of brave stability
curl down in heart of darkness with strong faith,
tides of history change and sweep me away
so I start again where my wrecked ship lands.

Secret face that all my ancestors wore
is only revealed by weird photograph
that no one ever sees framed on the wall
in museum of insurance where gods
assemble to discuss dire fates of men
who dare defy their power to decide.

My eyes are open in the nothingness
where light is forged from tense divinity
connecting atoms through eternity
based on strict copyright of cultured fame
so I see images of naked minds
struggling to be born from infectious muck.

Safe in library hall of singing books,
I modulate regressive miracles
mapping matrix ghosts of maternal love
through moral network of religious codes
contrived by charlatans who sell blind hope
so I can understand why all souls die.

Promotion proffered by surprised roulette,
revised by router sampling manic thoughts,
reveals my secret passion to construct
glider of Icarus from raven bones
because I want to fly above the world
and map the ever-shifting maze of faith.

Dark animal of fear embodies god
whom humans of each xenophobic tribe
worship with obsessive discography
by singing hymns in building by the sea
where efficient workers emulate fool
who sacrifices himself to kill the beast.

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Orpheus plays enchanting tunes on the lyre of Mercury to entrance the dark animal fear so he can lure its monstrous hate back to the underworld.

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