Psychic Game Of Chess

Psychic Game Of Chess
© Surazeus
2023 07 08

Soft ache of sorrow that love cartographs 
glows from my heart in television screen 
projecting vision of my small world view 
composed of stories other people tell 
though I perform my mundane role of life 
in psychic game of chess to outwit death. 

Garsenda sits by fountain in lush garden 
and plucks strings of the cithern with quick hands 
while singing lyrics of heart-aching tune 
that echoes off stone walls of paradise 
protecting her from famine and disease 
in psychic game of chess to invent truth. 

The blind prophet who guides earnest black horse 
rides through the city streets with midnight wind, 
proclaiming doom with ringing of the bell, 
but angry boys with fragile egos shoot 
innocent people with rifles of rage 
in psychic game of chess to steal our faith. 

The tyrant in the fortress tower of greed 
sends army full of angry men in tanks 
to invade the primal homeland of Scythia 
where people hide in basements of lost hope 
as bombs destroy museums of their dreams 
in psychic game of chess to control wealth. 

When the three-eyed raven of Zathamar 
lands on telephone line in the waste land, 
and watches refugees in caravans 
travel west to escape cruel tyranny, 
I wake alone on bridge to Neverland 
in psychic game of chess to leap the abyss. 

The oldest woman still in Avalon 
tends garden on estate of Melusine, 
hands tending roots and branches of fruit trees, 
while her wingless daughter sells apple sauce 
to the rock star who abandoned his faith 
in psychic game of chess to cheat despair. 

I want to be honest now with myself, 
and face the demons who possess my heart, 
the rock star whispers as he takes her hand, 
so they dance to the heart-enchanting tune 
Garsenda plays by the Fountain of Youth 
in psychic game of chess to find true love. 

Though toads on mushrooms in the dusky woods 
dream evolution of our hungry souls 
four hundred million years of reborn brains 
I drink wine from the silver holy grail 
Garsenda gave to me before she died 
in psychic game of chess to sing the truth.