Dark Stream Of Stories

Dark Stream Of Stories
© Surazeus
2023 03 06

Deep in dark stream of stories without hope, 
still swimming forward against aching surge 
of horror encoded in fairy tales, 
that praise heroes long rotting in cold tombs, 
she reaches arms toward bright indifferent moon 
of halcyon desire to wake from mute dream. 

Yet in her darkest hour of anguished fear 
she sees bright glowing idol of her mother 
beam down from screaming mirror of the moon 
who luminates that narrow signless road 
visible to her bleeding eyes alone, 
so she continues on beyond cold dawn. 

Unsettled by sweet nightfall on wet moor, 
engoldened by weird light in black rainclouds, 
she disappears in strange nightingale song 
louder than ocean waves that rainbow rocks 
of burnished wrecks, exiled from azure skies 
to grizzled spruce bog in forest of toads. 

Baptized in dazzling light of timeless dawn, 
while standing mute before huge tapestry 
depicting star-eyed unicorn of love 
chased by handsome men in garden of apples, 
she feels divine soul of our universe 
congeal as flashing diamond in her mind. 

Haughty pride swallowed by stark wilderness 
of astonishing faith, concealed in book 
of heart-warming tales, she sips tea of lust 
from fragile teacup of her brittle heart, 
then ponders perilous passion of trust 
she hesitates to balance with taut wings. 

Exalted on high jagged peak of angst, 
she answers wild call of the cautious wolf, 
reticent yet eager to taste soul blood 
that fountains from prolific womb of Earth 
with prosperous lethargy of honest thirst 
for prurient apathy of fertile patience. 

Anguish of blind ambition to transform 
beyond opacity of amorous beauty 
motivates her bold aggressive performance 
when she plays her impossible romance 
fraught with tragic nonchalance of contempt 
to express wanderlust of her pure mind. 

Awake in cataclysm of lost souls, 
who wander downtown churchyard of blind faith, 
she pours traumatic nectar of her mind 
in humid channel of bruised retrospect 
to re-embroider fractured face of death 
with tangled riddles in dark stream of stories.