Because I Did Not Die Today

Because I Did Not Die Today
© Surazeus
2023 07 11

Because I did not die today I go 
outside and stand on lawn of broken skulls 
to talk with burning angels in tall trees 
who throw apples at my ancestral ghosts. 
The river calls me to walk beyond hope 
and watch its sparkles reinvent the truth. 

Because I did not die today I laugh 
about how I see faces in the clouds 
as well as horses galloping on hills 
that follow my mother to Wonderland. 
The wordless book exploding in my eyes 
reveals that we are illusions of light. 

Because I did not die today I eat 
sacred apple I steal from smiling snake 
who tries to explain that math formula 
which calculates the distance to the sun. 
The apple falling from infinite blue 
defines strange wisdom of the changeless sea. 

Because I did not die to day I build 
houses for the homeless in sprawling maze 
of cities tangled in network of roads 
that all lead to this house where I live not. 
The silver chalice on the broken desk 
conceals unspoken sorrow of all mothers. 

Because I did not die today I walk 
the signless road my feet design from greed 
to visit every valley in the world 
where I leave my finger bones in thick mud. 
The apple cart waiting by the star pool 
interrogates the owl who never weeps. 

Because I did not die today I steal 
perplexing dreams from children without eyes 
who run away from graves of nameless gods 
to study irksome logic of the grass. 
The vast museum of ceramic jars 
imprisons marble idols of world heroes. 

Because I did not die today I play 
chess with Lucifer on the ocean shore 
to win electric key which opens minds 
exalted by obtuse theology. 
The telephone pole wants to fish with me 
because he loves the Hydra in Lake Lerna. 

Because I did not die today I sing 
cumbersome puzzles of ecstatic faith 
through revelation of the dragon queen 
who gives me water from her well to drink. 
The stoic clock embedded in the oak 
names me Cronus when I crawl from the sea.