White Horse Of Pulchritude
© Surazeus
2025 06 09

Since fashion springs from age of charlatans
he blazes his own path in solitude
by plunging on white horse of pulchritude
through bramble hedges of contrarians
on faithful pilgrimage to the Dream Cave
where Muses play electric lyres and rave.

To speak in common language of the soul
he leaps off cliff of fear and soars on wings
sewn from black heart of the demon who sings
heart-wrenching spells composed for sacred role
which he performs on actor-crowded stage
far outside lines of verse that bleed the page.

With deliberate violation of form
he casts decorum on the dirty ground
to contrive mangled spells from code unfound
through artificial laughter of the storm
based on perversions of unvalued ways
fake prophets chase in cluttered city maze.

By stripping beauty from lattice of tropes
through disassociation from state law
his shout from rooftop of the dragon maw
deregulates true meaning from false hopes
inimical to sapped significance
long scrutinized by schemes of arrogance.

Resurgent scrutiny confined by hate
subverts played proposition forged from fear
through fraught distinctions frail seers cannot bear
despite strict rudiments of free-will fate
contrasting measured math with prophecy
which substitutes courage for odyssey.

Drowned by cold water of embittered tears,
he floats in mindless Sea of Nevermore
while she soars high in flames no angel bore,
though both seek true love trapped by social fears
through tragic concept of infertile love
crushed by physics enforced by stars above.

Through no alternative of psychic faith
can souls regenerate again in flesh
except by incarnation as gene mesh
from egg of hope sparked by sperm of the wraith
which must exemplify celestial rule
that we choose fate with the verbalized tool.

Repeating harmony of ritual play,
he gathers fruit from Knowledge Tree of light
based on experience through formal plight
molding false idols from sensitized clay
that never come alive with conscious breath
though we play hide and seek with Father Death.

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