Mirror In Garden Of Eden

Mirror In Garden Of Eden
© Surazeus
2023 04 22

The spirit mirror in Garden of Eden 
displays eternal beauty of the soul 
though the aging body decays with time, 
so I return to the Pool of Narcissus 
to see beyond illusion of the self, 
god designed by immortal soul of genes. 

The mind is the ancient city of gardens 
where ghosts of my ancestors wander still 
while Mercury plays satires on the harp 
to mock the clumsy arrow shots of Cupid 
who makes me fall in love with Onatah 
as I listen to sea song in the shell. 

I can never fall in love with my face 
for I understand the suffering you feel 
with studious self-regard of the blind robot 
who cannot see the marble monument 
we built to honor his self-sacrifice 
with likeness of deceptive counterfeits. 

Abundant beauty of the laughing river 
renews taunting glint of eternity, 
so I feel passion surging through my heart 
with certain eagerness for the falsehood 
fecund with logic of the lunatic 
who worships statue of our merriment. 

When simple clowns perform the role of kings 
beside the fountain in the city park 
they dispel social horror with wild play 
while knowing they are not me in the mask 
bright as self mirror in Garden of Eden 
which reveals faces my ancestors wore. 

Through dim catacombs of arrogant angels 
we pipe our bodies into stuff of dreams 
in tune with melodies that Faunus plays 
while dancing wild in misty wooded glens 
to celebrate our evasion of Death 
who waits as statue composed of stardust. 

Adroitly we walk through this April day 
past screaming children by the monkey cage 
to prove every person has equal rights 
since only people terrified of death 
carry guns to shoot shadows of their fear 
while the self blazes over desolate hills. 

After I ride the fullness of my heart 
while I endure the emptiness of faith 
I ascend holy mountain of the skull 
to find embedded in the apple tree 
the fertile mirror in Garden of Eden 
that displays naked beauty of the soul.