Explicate The Why
© Surazeus
2025 07 31

What is this weird dream I experience here
except the otherworld of fantasy
where faceless people I can barely see
wander lost in shadows of wordless fear?
Orpheus cries out to the empty sky,
asking Ungod to explicate the why.

Garsenda strums the lyre of Mercury
and sings with aching voice of helpless love
for ideal warrior who gleams high above
our crowded world of brutal tragedy.
Orpheus teaches troubadours to play,
asking Ungod to explicate the why.

Rigaudus opens garden gate of faith
and searches maze where scarlet roses bloom
for Best of Ladies singing by the tomb
where she transforms into the sun-bright wraith.
Orpheus maps the true romantic way,
asking Ungod to explicate the why.

Gaufridus sails to shores of Tripoli
to find Hodierna, his true far-off love,
who cradles him as he dies in the cove,
tears splashing his pale face with agony.
Orpheus treasures wisdom of the spy,
asking Ungod to explicate the why.

Walterus, Nightingale of Vogelweide,
sings by the hearth where Venus reigns alone
with voice so sweet he wakes from divine stone
uncanny beauty women cannot hide.
Orpheus dreams Earth spinning in his eye,
asking Ungod to explicate the why.

Marcabrun stares into the bubbling pool
to see face of Earth Goddess in the sun
that shines behind his own face he would shun
to lament how his lust makes him the fool.
Orpheus leaves church where he cannot pray,
asking Ungod to explicate the why.

Christianus Troyus, exercising free will,
writes lines of verse with moon-black raven quill
detailing romance quest of Perceval
to find his bride who bears the Holy Grail.
Orpheus drives new car on the highway,
asking Ungod to explicate the why.

Now I wear mask of Phoebus since my birth
to sing about great heroes of our age,
though none have yet appeared on global stage
to manage United Nations of Earth.
Orpheus gives me wings of truth to fly,
asking Ungod to explicate the why.

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Orpheus hosts International Conference of Wandering Troubadours at the Zarathian Museum of Poesy.

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