Obelisk Of Infinite Eyes
© Surazeus
2025 08 30

Lost in obelisk of infinite eyes,
body twisted in spiral galaxies,
Orpheus asks the old woman with eyes
gleaming bright in open book of her hands
where he can find the Garden of Delights,
but she gives him the flute she carved from bone.

Headlights of passing cars gleam on the house
where no one has lived for two thousand years
so often beams of energy transform
from darkness into shadow of the girl
who wears the clean white lace communion dress
so Orpheus stops and steps from the car.

Skipping around him in the midnight rain
while chanting Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
the young girl tosses silver butterflies
that flock around him on hurricane wings,
so he unlocks door of the empty house
and walks down infinite hallways of time.

Each door Orpheus passes opens wide
as portal to another mirror world
that all branch off from the only real world
to glow as concepts of what could have been,
then fade away in gloom of yesterday
since each choice we assert creates tomorrow.

While he plays haunting melodies at night
on bone flute carved by Tethys in the cave,
Orpheus ponders why all conscious souls
that animate fragile bodies of flesh
will vanish in the nothingness of death,
but finds no answer in the silent dawn.

Ten thousand ghosts, who keep following him
as he plays eerie tunes on the bone flute,
dissipate when rays of dawn unveil fear
and recreate the teeming world of forms
composed of atoms swerving in the void
while he watches people fish on the beach.

When Orion finds on the ocean shore
tall black obelisk of infinite eyes,
he asks his blind mother Ophelia
if she remembers where the old road goes,
but she sails away on the wind-winged ship,
so he carves idol of Ozymandias.

Returning home in hills of Arkansas,
Orpheus drives long winding country road
through ancient forest of the smiling ghost
to rickety cabin by the stony brook
where Ophelia bakes sweet apple pie
beside obelisk of infinite eyes.

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Orpheus stares amused at thousands of television screens that show his complete life cycle he lives on countless mirror worlds of the multiverse that does not exist except in his head.

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