Golden Road Of Success
© Surazeus
2025 08 10

Lost in mind-bending illusion of time,
preserved in television show of fate,
Gotenus runs across the muddy field
to catch rainbow of perspicacity,
shocked awake with discernment from despair
at the crumbling of his castle into sand.

Eager to learn flight from ravens of faith,
explained by snow flakes on the fractured screen,
Gotenus stops running by the highway
to stare at shadows streaking swiftly past
till his eyes, searching for horses, see cars,
glass coffins floating on four wheels of fate.

Astray far from golden road of success,
disoriented in maze of locked doors,
Gotenus searches among roots of trees
for sacred book he buried in his heart
which he plans to trade for the Holy Grail
that tumbles down stairs of the falling tower.

Ardent with fierce faith forged from suffering,
amazed at wisdom in song of the toad,
Gotenus preaches salvation by faith
in hollow horror of the empty church
while faceless ghosts sing sacred hymns of hope
for second coming of the long-dead king.

Zealous for aesthetic beauty of truth,
consumed by hunger of capital gains,
Gotenus calculates through numbers gain
return on investment from measurement
defining secret passion of the heart
while lovers replicate digital assets.

Anxious from strict efficiency of death,
bewildered at the birth of divine souls,
Gotenus stands at locked door of the tower
and calls name of Rapunzel with bold voice,
but Radigund, her daughter with Adonis,
appears at the window of fate instead.

Impatient for their wedding to begin,
invested in weird worship of the mind,
Gotenus stands before his princess bride
and gives her Wand of Ishtar with respect
so she wields global political power
to manage United Nations of Earth.

Fallen from Heaven on torn angel wings,
tricked by the Serpent Witch of Honesty,
Gotenus wanders gloomy halls of time
in many-roomed mansion of privilege,
calling for Radigund with anguished voice
who died in childbirth forty years before.

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Orpheus arrives at the mansion with gifts for the new-born child of Gotenus and Radigund who is destined to reign as queen of the world.

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