Golden Songbird Of Byzantium

Golden Songbird Of Byzantium
© Surazeus
2022 12 15

If golden songbird of Byzantium 
reveals strange sunlight to my bleeding eyes 
I could perceive vast personality 
of that blind seer inside dark mountain cave 
who sees beyond material forms of words 
to float with stars throughout eternity. 

Yet I fall back in frame of mortal flesh 
which conjures conscious god-mind of my brain 
to laugh with ache of joy how everything 
still shines with timeless beauty of its being 
so I would dance with you in moonlit rain 
to feel our bodies vibe with cosmic mesh. 

The ghosts of people whose names I forget 
haunt dim shadows from late afternoon light 
with silent judgment in my cluttered room 
where I arrange fragments of strange events 
in complicated puzzle of world history 
to see where I am now in maze of myths. 

Frail paper lantern of my dreaming brain 
illuminates truths I fear to observe 
in faces of monsters lurking through time 
to consume cities men build from bread loaves 
so I look at my face in broken mirror 
hoping to see first mother of the world. 

Waking up in the middle of the stream 
with my hungry mouth full of unknown words, 
I sing electric body of my brain 
which shoots ten thousand angels at the sea 
where they transform into clones of my mind 
and wear mask of my face with jesting love. 

Across teeming estuaries of hope 
I try to sail home to Byzantium 
but end up in pristine Chesapeake Bay 
where I transform from the Owl to the Wolf 
then run into old woods on rainbow wings 
to contemplate sweet mystery of our being. 

Though trapped inside glass television screen 
I sing prophecies Orpheus concealed 
to calculate how far I must evolve 
in psychic phase of surrealist humor 
to become the God religions invent 
till my soul freezes into marble statue. 

When I find blind seer in dark mountain cave 
she reveals to astonished crowd of seekers 
that golden songbird of Byzantium 
dwells in the heart of every human soul 
so we hold hands by lake of eyes to sing 
before the meteor demolishes Earth.