Puzzle Of Spiritual Hope

Puzzle Of Spiritual Hope
© Surazeus
2023 04 03

He finds his father washed up on the shore, 
rancid flesh decayed to spiritual hope, 
so he drags his corpse crumbling into gobs 
of disgust over shimmering golden sand 
of silent horror at beautiful glow 
of sunset screaming blood into wild wind. 

With purple wind in his aggressive hands 
he sings wordless angst of spiritual hope 
in strangled language of moon-surging tide, 
yet faceless children chase white butterfly, 
then kneel in splintered light of genesis 
to watch the turtle clamber up soft dunes. 

He hears sweet siren on sharp jagged rock, 
lashed by furious waves of spiritual hope, 
sing heart-enchanting elegy of love 
because we cannot bear to look away 
from indecent tragedy of our lives, 
urged by crippling pain to overcome fear. 

Though his soul is dispersed in swirling mist 
to shroud cold heaven with spiritual hope 
he measures turbulence of endless seas 
through vanishing harmony of strange sounds 
with plans to preserve nothingness of love 
in fractured shelter of collapsing worlds. 

His wordless cry admonishing mute clouds, 
mapped by soft chorus of spiritual hope, 
encompasses our mortal realm of pain 
disbursed as fractal quadrants to reveal 
last cycle of change that dissolves our truth 
too potent to assemble mask of faith. 

With unknown voice in loud chorus of rain 
translating puzzle of spiritual hope, 
which redesigns his social paradigm, 
he chips flint stone into soul-rending blade 
that resembles shape of his time-carved face 
while plotting revolution against hate. 

Grinding wheat to flour in sun-baked clay pot, 
he prepares fresh bread of spiritual hope 
which he eats on small flat-top pyramid 
as sun-sparkling surf cheers slow flight of terns 
till aching sense of his loss scintillates 
breathless gloom of forgotten paradise. 

Ghost of his father rotting on the shore, 
disfigured with rage of spiritual hope, 
resurrects from horror of unknown truth 
to possess his body with spark of faith 
when he sees face of his father appear 
reborn in person of his laughing son.