Court Of Mental Guilt
© Surazeus
2026 08 23

Not too sublime for engine of the car
to allocate resources for rebirth
when we, from gnarly trees emerge unscathed,
prefer to play chess in the living room
though planes drop bombs on houses somewhere near,
for we are frail as flowers in mute fear.

Concern for how far angels fall each day
diverts attention of our daily prayers
to fractured state of global politics
which sparks new paradigms from social change
when hordes of people clash in cyber war
over whose world view describes the real world.

No bells are heard in leafy neighborhoods
from churches crowded on the summer day
when devils wearing masks of holiness
preach salvation only for those who pay
tithes to the institution based on lies
that we will resurrect from graves of muck.

When Alice returns home from Wonderland
she finds work at the Pegasus Cafe
brewing coffee for officers and clowns
who play their roles in court of mental guilt
that keeps society functioning well
in game of fame between lawyers and thieves.

Too often children who chase butterflies
get lost in lush hills of Arcadia
that shimmers as the Otherworld of Faith
behind facade of this real modern world
where orcs in banks and elves in galleries
compete for profit from the vampire god.

As agent of Talamasca, I search
dark alleyways for ghosts of ancient gods
who walk this world in standard human form
for we embody energies of myth
composed of tropes that replay old soul wars,
even when I buy beef sandwich and juice.

Under old oak tree in the city park
across the street from office where I work,
I eat lunch with Bacchus and Icarus
who ask if I want to participate
in heist of treasure from museum hall
where masks of gods hang on the blood-smeared wall.

I just want to map history of mankind
in quiet library where screaming ghosts
attempt to set distorted records straight
till words in books bleed into honey bees
that swarm the crowded streets of everywhere
with sublime hum of engine in the car.

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Orpheus wears mask of the Deer God to find Cernunnos tending garden of gardenias at his home on shore of the Avon River where his children play.

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