Idol Of The Faceless God

Idol Of The Faceless God
© Surazeus
2023 01 23

This inauspicious day when no birds fly 
displays law of conservation of mass 
where pulsing entities of energy 
will never be created or destroyed 
for they are rearranged in waves of space 
so I become owl spirit of my heart. 

I have no panegyric of grand thoughts 
to praise mad emperor of the seven worlds 
before assembly of all global kings 
who fight each other for lush vales of fruit 
while children of all nations attend school 
to learn how we evolve from ocean slime. 

Great cities at the heart of world empires 
always grow at the mouths of major rivers 
controlled by gangsters with weapons of death 
who crown the meanest bully as their king 
and then declare it treason to oppose 
rule of his first son appointed by God. 

The small boy crouches in the apple tree, 
clutching stick and stone with his trembling hands, 
breathes deeply, then leaps on back of the wolf 
to fight the snarling devil to the death, 
and, after feasting on its divine soul, 
he wears its fur as cloak of divine power. 

The werewolf, holding love wand and truth orb, 
ascends small ziggurat past watching crowd, 
his wolf-fur cloak blowing in ocean wind, 
then confiscates the gold spiked crown of jewels 
from the old blind man who demands respect, 
and crowns himself new Emperor of Earth. 

Transforming into statue of white marble, 
the living god becomes the worshipped idol 
that stands ten thousand years on pyramid 
constructed on the skulls of weeping slaves 
as empires rise and fall in tides of change 
till nothing remains but the faceless god. 

Climbing pyramid of one shining eye, 
I face the idol of the faceless god 
who symbolizes leader of the tribe 
because the living man who plays his role 
personifies the spirit of the nation 
as incarnation of the Divine Mind. 

When the owl flies across the starry sky, 
at the global inauguration rite 
where people of Earth vote for who plays God, 
I write his name and deeds in Book of Power 
to record brief reign of another king 
who becomes idol of the faceless god.