Waves Of Vanishing Desire
© Surazeus
2026 06 13

When Phoebus follows river of his eyes
that flow through broken window of his heart,
he finds his body in the ocean house
that floats on airplane wings of dragon eggs
which nurture horse with honeysuckle wings
who teaches him how to dig his own grave.

Weary on waves of vanishing desire,
Phoebus builds another bridge from sparrow bones
that gives him strength of harpy butterflies
to endure endless days of everywhere
because the past returns in loops of laughter
where river of his eyes flows to the sea.

Heart bruised by shadows of the faceless dead,
Phoebus lies on grass while the clock rewires
how his sponge brain perceives eternal light
that glows from skin of Columbine when she strips
mask of her happiness to bare her soul
studded with milk-white stars of unmarred faith.

Concluding with sly grin of knowingness,
Columbine asks the charlatan to prove
she has no right to live in paradise,
but he sells Bibles to the gullible
who cheer when Harlequin erases words
to steal the falling star of honesty.

Amused at clashing cymbals of respect,
Columbine rescues the blind hanging man
who sells her memories of their love trysts
to kind sorcerers from Bohemia
who ask Phoebus to reign as their new king
while he rocks his daughter in gentle arms.

When Harlequin returns from Kingdom Come
and asks bold Columbine to marry him,
Phoebus interferes with their fake romance,
intending to repair the garden path
where Melancholy dances with Disdain
as if they are new deities we love.

Clotilde points to angels in the sky
whose bodies fall as snowflakes on the Earth,
so Phoebus makes small snowman on his lawn
with twisted tree branches as devil horns
while children gather coins from lake-shore mud
stamped with cute scene of Bacchus and his pards.

While she plays tambourine with broken heart
beneath the weeping bells of Notre Dame,
Phoebus gives Columbine peach juice to drink
so she teaches Clotilde how to paint
faces of ghosts who descend from the sky
with metallic wings of terrified birds.

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Orpheus poses with lyre of Mercury by ruined temple of dead gods while Clotilde paints his portrait with blood of angels fallen from Heaven.

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