While Dancing With Hippies

While Dancing With Hippies
© Surazeus
2024 03 06

Wide aspect of red clouds that know my name 
turns crystal pages of elusive books 
with honest plan to cheat Death of her game 
by crowning queens who marry humble rooks 
though we should pay our bills on time to prove 
we are brave hipsters going with the groove. 

High bridge whole arching over ocean tides 
conserves strange memories immigrants discard 
with unspent motions in aggressive strides 
to claim harsh freedom with conceptual card 
as we breathe phone lines flowing with our voice 
based on cruel accolades of every choice. 

Obscure as Heaven everyone claims theirs, 
my heart at altar wound with humming wires 
shrouds angry passion with calm joy of bears 
when Zeus appoints me to direct grand choirs 
because I want to run for president 
so I can comfort orphans who lament. 

Foretold to ancient eyes with wingless words, 
weird prophecies that only children hear 
reveal no wisdom but what hungry birds 
consider true through measurement of fear 
which lights our darkness with shadow of love 
still veiling sleepless rivers from above. 

So many children starve in paradise 
where Eve stole apple from the honest snake 
because we claim our homeland has no price 
despite assurances our dreams are fake 
since demons of the night lift us in arms 
made more compassionate by jeweled charms. 

Time now to bomb cathedral of the clown 
who sings heart-wrenching elegy of faith 
on dome of the rock while wearing gold crown 
he stole from savior as our star-eyed wraith 
so we can build new temple for our queen 
who runs global baby-making machine. 

When I sing immaculate sigh of stars 
with fractured idiom only poor folk speak, 
I swim with star-eyed bard in Sea of Mars 
so deep we land on highest mountain peak 
that juts from agony of spinning Earth 
too late to know what true love may be worth. 

Among bombed ruins of Heaven I stroll 
with plans to build new homes for humble saints 
because twin brothers fight for who plays role 
as savior of the cute princess who faints 
while dancing with hippies in field of dreams, 
lonely Ophelias in polluted streams.