Ancient Secret Of Happiness

Ancient Secret Of Happiness
© Surazeus
2023 02 08

She turns every sign backward with sly smirk 
to misdirect true way to paradise 
while visiting her lover by god tree 
that blossoms from foul rotten corpse of Zeus 
in ancient forest where blind demons lurk 
since terrible beauty of life is free. 

She walks the signless road to Avalon 
where ravens gossip on telephone lines 
about celebrities of the art world 
who dare defy world state authority 
by making beautiful art that presents 
different ways to define reality. 

She calls the blind bard on the telephone 
because she loves the way his songs confound 
businessmen who analyze profit scale 
based on the flower in hand of the child 
who knows ancient secret of happiness 
that motivates the latest holy war. 

She opens book of stories on the desk 
where magic runes contain souls of dead gods 
conjured up by eyes of readers who dream 
how we must fight back against tyranny 
then give each living soul inalienable right 
to pursue their happiness into Hell. 

She runs through milling crowd of refugees 
forever toward the man with hidden wings 
to welcome him home from the sixth world war 
while he wanders the bright museum maze, 
so they hold hands and chat with Willow Tree 
about ghost of the girl in the locked door. 

She hides idol of Zeus in fertile womb 
to raise him as her first-born son with rules 
constraining fierce aggression of his lust 
so he can reign on ziggurat of skulls 
over vast empire his father designs 
to organize skilled labor of our hands. 

She molds mud of the Earth into my body, 
and weaves sunlight into my dreaming brain, 
then conjures strike of lightning from Tiwaz 
which sparks awake my conscious state of being 
so I observe the world with curious eye 
to comprehend the true nature of things. 

She wears global mask of our deathless mother 
who remembers first flash of the big bang 
by teaching me how to sing magic spells 
so I can play role of messiah sleuth 
performing quest to find the Holy Grail 
at second coming of the cosmic herald.