Crafting Hands Of Hope
© Surazeus
2026 09 25

Through lyrical expression of my thoughts
in undulating waves of rhythmic verse
I feel this timeless moment crystalize
in momentary vision of insight
that lifts my mind on bold attentive wings
outside conceptual frame of changing time.

Apollo glances up from plucking strings
at sudden pang of sorrow in his heart,
and stares with sigh of ennui at the crowd
of housewives browsing full vegetable stands,
and wonders if heroic tale of courage
he longs to express would inspire their souls.

When Hadad threatens Dagon with sharp knife,
demanding that he compensate his loss
for rotten fish he sold him yesterday,
Atargatis attempts to mediate,
with soothing words to calm their tempers down,
but storm-hearted man cuts her on the arm.

Just as Apollo stands up to respond
with attentive aid to wound on her arm,
Mithras leaps down from ten-foot pyramid
with sword unsheathed to guard the market queen,
placing his body as protective shield,
so Hadad plunges knife blade in his chest.

As Mithras falls in arms of Atargatis,
who tends his wound with cloth to staunch blood flow,
Hadad attempts to flee through milling crowd,
but Apollo leaps up small pyramid
and shoots sharp arrow straight into his thigh
which causes storm god to fall on his face.

After six Seraphim arrest Hadad
and drag him for judgement in Hall of Zeus,
Apollo strums lyre of Mercurius
and sings short lyric to express his thoughts
that praise wise Atargatis with clear eyes
for just management of the marketplace.

"We create with our crafting hands of hope
useful utensils from material forms
through skill from stringent training we receive,
so every person plays their talent role
to maintain our food-production system,
then gains reward from selling crafts of love."

People who assemble to hear him sing
toss coins stamped with face of Mercurius
in wood bowl set before his pedestal,
so Apollo counts profit of his art,
then Atargatis asks if he will play
in Temple of Zeus for the evening feast.

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Orpheus transcribes words of songs Apollo sings while on stage in the Temple of Zeus where hundreds of people feast while the Bard sings tale of Mithras and Atargatis.

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