Grand Canyon Of Faith
© Surazeus
2025 05 18

The gray-haired woman in the river boat
commissions the white raven to retrieve
gold pocket watch from the insolent knight
who sells his armor at the antique shop
for coat of many colors he can wear
when he attends the posh gallery show.

The sad angel curled in the oak book shelf
requests the red-furred cat with serpent eyes
for pair of wings the snowy owl sells
then watches the passenger jet of faith
scatter fake clouds of arrogance with prayer
while the cat and the owl play game of chess.

The spider man with thirty-thousand eyes,
who lives in the Grand Canyon of faith,
weaves tapestry of human history
that presents the prophets in dreamless caves
of every religion mankind invents
to translate wisdom of toads in the swamp.

The young school girl wearing long cotton skirt
climbs down the side of the high red brick wall
on rusty ladder of excessive faith
because she wants to ask the robot clown
how he can always make sad people laugh
with confusing riddles no one could solve.

The car mechanic in the large garage
decides that engines represent the heart
demonic angels build for time machines
that lonely people drive across the land
where Roland blows ivory oliphant horn
though no one rescues his soldiers from bombs.

The small-church pastor wearing silver suit
flips through pages of the Bible to find
elusive passage that explains how faith
can save the fool from dancing off the cliff,
then drinks beer by the oak and laughs all night
at absurd beauty of the butterfly.

The serious magician with yew wand
transforms the toad long croaking in the swamp
into accountant for the country bank
tasked to adjudicate requests for loans
farmers apply to fund their future crops
in field where Mithra tames the Minotaur.

The gray-haired woman in the river boat
gives me the wand she uses to catch fish
so I ask the school girl to marry me
so we can translate song of nothingness
to silly fairy tales children can read
before they grow up to work in finance.

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Orpheus gives the gray-haired woman in the river boat the radio she purchased to play romantic songs of Edith Piaf.

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