Without My Burning Heart

Without My Burning Heart
© Surazeus
2023 02 16

Without my burning heart to guide my way, 
I would be lost in maze of Wonderland, 
so I will never kneel in gloom to pray 
to faceless terror of the bloody hand, 
as if I am the star that never falls 
to crack the mirror mask in doorless halls. 

Without my burning heart to light the world, 
no fruit trees blossom from vast parking lots 
where war orphans follow the cosmic herald 
who turns them into valiant Argonauts 
dauntless in their fight against tyranny 
to calculate strange code through irony. 

Without my burning heart to crack the eggs 
that nurture demon souls of deities, 
described by names and deeds in catalogs 
because Orion loves the Pleiades, 
our children program weird computer code 
to map the multiverse by psychic road. 

Without my burning heart to frame the truth 
with arcane doctrine of the hero code 
I accept my fate as messiah sleuth, 
though I refuse to sing the palinode 
disputing doctrine that the afterlife 
is lie designed to heal hearts torn by strife. 

Without my burning heart to trace the path 
my bold ancestors blaze around the globe, 
I could not grow into the polymath 
composing ballads to pulse of the strobe 
that blinds wingless angel in the glass church 
who budgets journey for the occult search. 

Without my burning heart to prove the notion 
that we are atoms swerving in the void, 
I could not find primal cause of all motion 
that spurs my dreams in psychic solenoid 
when we run laughing on the beach of faith 
to become one with the galactic wraith. 

Without my burning heart to choose the words 
that help me navigate vast maze of myths, 
I might not find you singing with lake birds 
safe withing ring of diamond monoliths 
which form ancient temples of dinosaurs 
now thriving as sad poets in bookstores. 

Without my burning heart to print the tale 
depicting tragic romance of young fools, 
I will build paradise in river vale 
with secret formulas of psychic tools 
so I can raise my family in safe home 
when I find the true grail and cease to roam.