Destroyer Of Worlds

Destroyer Of Worlds
© Surazeus
2023 07 30

The wild homeless man with long tangled hair 
plays piano on Dream Library porch 
when King Lear tries to woo Ophelia 
but she runs off with Orpheus instead 
on vacation to the Grand Canyon park 
where she throws rose petals in the abyss. 

While swimming off the coast of Aquitaine 
Clementine gasps when Ska-Ana attacks 
the royal yacht Britannia in moonlight, 
so full fathom five with pearls for his eyes 
King Charles floats beside the Phoenician sailor 
till the Little Mermaid drags them to shore. 

Hiding in the Kremlin Tower of skulls, 
where Rapunzel prophesies the End Times, 
Tsar Vlad cries out for blood of Skythian maids 
to satisfy his thirst for gasoline 
till Zorya stands before his Merkabah 
to slot sunflowers in barrels of tanks. 

The star-eyed man in Cavern of Illusions 
kneels before Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds, 
who gives him disk of quick atomic light, 
so Rudra weaves sparks in Uranium 
that Oppenheimer packs in nuclear bomb 
which Jupiter grips in his red right hand. 

When Amaterasu opens cavern door 
to invite Mary Magdalene for tea 
Jupiter hurls nuclear bomb at Japan 
that flashes into whirling Mirror Eye 
which opens at first flash of the big bang 
to resurrect Jesus with apple kiss. 

Ascending high on wings of Icarus, 
Jesus floats in glowing cloud of gold light 
that explodes from nuclear bomb of his heart 
while three-eyed raven Cronus with mushrooms 
leads Barbie to the well of Melusine 
where she asks to play chess with Clementine. 

King Lear rescues Ophelia from the river 
but she gives his crown to blind Jupiter 
who waits at the Kyiv train station for Zorya 
till Icarus and Shiva break the door 
where Oppenheimer attempts to kiss Barbie 
though she just wants to run for president. 

Alone in Theater of the Absurd, 
I watch the paper dolls of characters 
blown away by relentless wind of time 
to erase all our dramas from the Earth, 
yet Orpheus walks the waste land to Eden, 
texting with Ophelia on his eye phone.