Righteous Way To Go
© Surazeus
2026 05 13

Stuck on the righteous way to go to Heaven
that winds through every city in the world,
I study statues of Satan and Hamlet
to understand romantic state of mind
that could fuel engine of my beating heart
when I want to leap from Tower of Hope.

Lying stunned on the righteous way to go
after I fall from Heaven for nine days,
I wake alone in Valley of Despond
with tattered wings of Icarus I stole
to find my crash created my own space
where I can sing solemn psalms of despair.

Lost on the righteous way to go back home
where ghosts of my parents forget my name,
I cast my bread upon waters of faith
but the birds with angelic wings of light
die from sorrow of poisoned promises
and I get nothing but handfuls of rain.

Mapping the righteous way to go to Hell
where Hamlet and Orpheus share bad jokes,
I design new ontology of truth
to conjure virtual model of the Earth
that represents the way things really are
instead of how Plato thinks they should be.

Eager to name the righteous way to go
that leads to paradise of apple trees,
I plant seeds in the wilderness of pain
that sprout into Seraphim of my heart
who stand guard on the marble walls of Troy
where Cassandra waits for me to come home.

Still waiting on the righteous way to go
through airport security with my passport,
I think about my bride Persephone
who meets Mona Lisa and Melusine
to paint statues at the Vigeland Park
beneath tall monolith of writhing ghosts.

Racing time on the righteous way to go
with the Third Man on cold Antarctic plains,
I find Hammer of Thor stuck in the ice,
so I proclaim myself King of Greenland,
and dare mad Nebuchadnezzar to fight me
whose statue of gold falls in the waste land.

Abandoning the righteous way to go
where Percival lies drowned on the sea shore,
I ask wise Urania to marry me,
but she is in love with Prometheus
who operates power plant near Lake Tahoe
that leaves thousands of people in the dark.

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Orpheus goes on tour around the world doing standup comedy where he performs monologs of Odysseus, Jesus, Hamlet, and other romantic anti-heroes who defy tyrants.

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