If I Will Write A Memoir

If I Will Write A Memoir
© Surazeus
2018 08 18

Someone asked if I will write a memoir.
Events of my life are irrelevant
to the universal experience
I express in the dreams of poems I code.

Descended from Puritan Poet Anne Bradstreet,
I was born far west in lush Oregon,
grew up in Texas inventing languages,
then hiked in misty mountains near Seattle.

Someone asked if I will write a memoir.
Events that occur in the poems I write
are fragments of my memoir rearranged
in puzzling persona of Lucifer.

Descending to snow peak of Mount Takoma,
Athena gave me guitar, pen, and book,
and commissioned me to write poetry,
so I hitchhiked from sea to shining sea.

Someone asked if I will write a memoir.
Events of human experience conjured
by stream of words I arrange in weird spells
record how we survive death till we die.

Ascending Rainbow Mountains in Arapaho,
I improvised endless narrative tales
of how First Mother rose from Lake of Dreams
and taught us to sing visions we perceive.

Someone asked if I will write a memoir.
Events of mammal memory are stones
glowing with atomic light of lost stars
that guide our path into the Lake of Dreams.

Mapping migration of humanity
from temple of Ishtar around the globe,
I compose epic of philosophers
to portray progress of technology.

Someone asked if I will write a memoir.
Events of evolution spiral far
from First Flash that flares forth into White Whole
of conscious spirits that beam from Black Hole.

Encoding human experience and knowledge,
I chant magic spells in cinematic verse
to preserve lives and ideas of scientists
who teach us formulas of chemistry.