Guide Man Toward Death

Guide Man Toward Death
© Surazeus
2023 06 03

I feel dark weight of twenty thousand years 
blaze from blinding star of uncertainty, 
so I break from traditions of the past 
and build my own tradition on their ruins, 
for Ishtar founded on stone of my heart 
all world religions that guide Man toward Death. 

Though I walk alone in city of wires 
I carry water from tempestuous seas 
to fill the cooking cauldrons of the poor 
with holy nectar from ichor of gods 
so we may drink bright energy of stars 
beaming with visions that guide Man toward Death. 

The man who carries ladders in his heart 
leads refugees of wars to border walls 
then helps them transcend social obstacles 
so they can invade Heaven in their quest 
to live as they will, freed from chains of greed, 
attending rituals that guide Man toward Death. 

The way to the river of singing ghosts 
leads past the broken walls of paradise 
so we escape factories and offices 
to gather in the wind-swept parking lot 
where we pray to Golden Bull of Wall Street 
whose priestly matadors guide Man toward Death. 

I am the son of ghosts clutching Dream Book 
that organizes facts about the world 
in strict coherent cosmos of the damned 
for I am blind with ambition to rule 
the world corporate food-production machine 
producing stories that guide Man toward Death. 

Though warden guarding garden of the Earth 
lies buried with keys to Kingdom of Heaven, 
I walk the sacred land of Rainbow Mountains 
where no kings with crowns of authority 
are allowed to tyrannize honest people 
who wait for Phoebus to guide Man toward Death. 

Since my heart is the Argonaut of faith 
in which flame of arrogance is concealed 
I feel it burn with universal truth 
as psychic flare in darkness of the void 
so we dance with abandon of true love 
in stories of stars that guide Man toward Death. 

Awake with ancient genius of the Earth 
in uninhabitable deserts of thought, 
I feel dark weight of twenty thousand years 
support foundation of our world religion 
that worships gods who embody One God 
so we sing ballads that guide Man toward Death.