Presence Of Air And Light

Presence Of Air And Light
© Surazeus
2018 03 26

He is the kind of person who always
like to say he is completely insane,
though he knows he is perfectly mundane,
so he tries to act weird. Lost in the maze
we play hide and seek with Almighty God
who is only presence of air and light
that shimmers all around us in the night,
so we conclude that He is but a fraud.

He likes to stand on street corners and throw
pennies on the ground before passing people,
then sneers and calls them stupid greedy sheeple
when they pass them by. Life is all a show,
he declares while swinging arms like an ape,
then distorts his face like the howling clowns
in horror movies who haunt Christian towns.

He likes to wear the red Superman cape
over his expensive grey business suit,
then follows businessmen while playing a flute,
but when they give him money for his song
he tears bills in shreds and shouts the word wrong
while they bump in glass doors to get away.

Then he will kneel down and pretend to pray
in the middle of the pedestrian crosswalk
just as the light turns green, so the cars honk
and try to drive around him, but he leaps
up and down, waving his arms as he beeps
like a robot in front of the stone bank,
inviting drivers to get out and talk
about our Lord and Savior Dionysus.

Laughing when they all call him obscene names,
he weaves through tables where old men play games
and tells everyone he is returned Jesus.
He sits alone behind library wall,
staring at sun and shadow on dry grass,
and whispers, I am not insane at last,
then goes to eat a burger at the mall.