Singing Skull Of Truth

Singing Skull Of Truth
© Surazeus
2023 04 23

I need nothing from the cow in the rain 
but she smiles and gives me faith anyway 
to believe that the moon loves how I sing 
since flowers consume cracked bones of my soul 
while screaming at the airplane in the sky 
who always seems to forget the way home. 

The serious poet on the global stage 
proclaims new wisdom of the singing skull 
designed to calculate how brains express 
dreams through artificial intelligence 
with the automatic writing technique 
employed by the jester wearing my crown. 

Every evening after the midnight hour 
I jump over the moon on raven wings 
to find gold palace where Saturnus reigns 
by using calculus to calculate 
ethereal curves of psychedelic minds 
who dream the future that never occurs. 

The noble hero stuck in epic tale 
wants to escape weird tragic stage of fate 
to run with wolves in wilderness of lies, 
but finds himself on television show 
as he plays chess with Death to save the world 
but loses every match till kingdom come. 

Old queen who rules vast city on the hill 
remembers her passionate love affair 
with the star-eyed man who conquered her land 
and threw her father in the swirling sea 
till she hung the devil on the phone pole 
so he can dream whole history of the world. 

Heart-wrenching melody of timeless love 
rings softly through wild jungle of sad ghosts 
who dance around bonfire of vanities 
while seeking to transcend this mortal realm 
on wings Daedalus designs from our fears 
so we can live free from oppressive laws. 

When eager boys from villages in Spain 
wander lost in hills of Colombia 
they forget old stories they heard in church 
as they transform into fierce warriors 
and follow mad King Lear on windy hills 
who rules heart of darkness with empty gun. 

I drink fresh milk from the cow in the rain 
while the Nowhere Man in his Nowhere Land 
sings to Lucifer in the sky with diamonds 
because he reigns as spirit of the age 
through second American civil war 
recorded by the singing skull of truth.