Children Wear My Face
© Surazeus
2025 03 13

Green flashing radar blinks its gargoyle eye
and beeps to indicate with pulsing point
existential threat to our normalcy
tangled with blues of tornado debris
sung by the blind seer on the busy street
whose mercurial voice haunts hot afternoons.

I will not let the world transcribe my life
with standard stereotype in plastic mask
when children wear my face on Halloween,
for my time on this spinning globe of dirt
may be intense with melancholy angst
but brief as flutter of butterfly wings.

Trapped in hungry state of barefoot resolve
with tattered hat of Huckleberry Finn,
I become someone else I never was
after thinking I should be who I am,
pliable sculpture of the headless god
bestowed with laurel of the thorny crown.

I shield my heart with books of faceless ghosts
which insures it is not available
for manipulation through social codes
which program how I navigate this life,
so where I end up falling over dead
is inconsequential to where I go.

When I find discarded on the sidewalk
random page from lost book of poetry,
I realize with wry grin of droll insight
the destination of this life we choose
has always been the farce of consequence
we fail to avoid when we change our life.

Tracing forms of objects my eyes perceive
which manifest changeless ideas of hope,
and climbing trees on rugged mountain slope
to understand ritual I play to grieve,
I gaze upon stone idol of my soul
which reflects weird beauty of the White Whole.

Each action I perform as human being,
composed of atoms swerving through the void,
transmits immortal spirit of my genes
compiled from flashing molecules of love
through each organic body I become
as I evolve from fish to wingless angel.

Spells I transmit in morse code of the heart
are indicator of my psychic state
through holding pattern of enlightenment
which I attain with wings of Icarus
when I strum lyre of Mercury and sing
before I crumble in my silent grave.

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Orpheus arranges torn fragments from pages of ancient stories in puzzle of perception to rediscover lost dreams of the dead.

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