Hope Of Helius

Hope Of Helius
© Surazeus
2024 12 18

If, as Paul claims, the wheel invents the road, 
then our global metropolitan maze 
of cities connected by countless roads, 
that we have blazed the past ten thousand years, 
was designed by the hope of Helius 
when he invented the wheel from despair. 

The spin of the wheel measures the whole world 
within parameters of human hope 
based on ambition to explore the dark 
and map the unknown with perceptive myths 
enclosing waste land of the wilderness 
inside the civil walls of paradise. 

Since Helius first stood on wagon stage
and sang his mercurial hymn to the sun, 
we have stored information about life 
in tales our singers share in distant towns 
to weave our heavens, born in solitude, 
in single matrix of our global fortune. 

When I find two roads diverge in the wood, 
while driving my wagon in the waste land, 
I swerve from ancient road of strict tradition 
to blaze broad religion of curious hope 
so I can construct new City of Mirrors 
where all the hope-roads of the world converge. 

This urgent drive of curiosity 
to find where the sun goes after it sets 
fuels endless exploration of the world 
measured by steady turning of the wheel 
to weave my fortune from the threads of fate 
in tapestry that depicts my epic quest. 

Till I connect every town in the world 
in global empire of my consciousness, 
I drive my wagon on each signless road 
with crafts to sell in markets far from home 
where grand gods that look like mine guard their lives 
though all our idols have long lost their masks. 

The hope of Helius inspires my life quest 
to map every nation thriving on Earth, 
depicting how they flow in streams of history 
from fountain where Amen, Mother of Mankind, 
under four palm trees on the ziggurat, 
gives fresh water for travelers to drink. 

I dream whole history of our teeming world 
with ceaseless spinning from the wheel of time 
that measures fortune in our rise and fall 
of each empire that nurtures human life 
based on global food-production machine 
prophesied by the hope of Helius.