Right To Rule Byzantium

Right To Rule Byzantium
© Surazeus
2023 08 31

Beneath the golden bough of arrogance, 
where kings enforce bold arbitrary rules 
then pay the price of social sacrifice, 
I tend contentious flames of bitter truth 
to study strange complexities of life 
while dancing agony of honest love. 

Though I scorn flashy glories of world fame 
to channel visions of demonic truth 
through revelation of tormented hope 
that humans clutch with greedy hands of faith, 
I tame strange furies of complexity 
which proves my right to rule Byzantium. 

Where Valentinus strides in marble hall, 
still haunted by bright shadows of his face, 
wise Bythos rises from dark sea of truth 
with silent depth of soul profundity 
providing hypostatic concept of true love 
when I speak Word of Wisdom in the Church. 

Because Sophia births child of my seed 
who molds ideas with lithe crafting hands 
to manage constant change of atom flow, 
I stand on flat-top pyramid of stars 
to sing creation of our universe 
swirled from catastrophe of aching love. 

From bright Pleroma of the White Whole beams 
conceptual fullness of vast galaxies 
that spiral outward through eternity 
from radical vortex of the mind gyre 
so I recognize depth of cosmic being 
that glows from atoms of my dreaming brain. 

Constructing virtual model of this Earth 
on firm foundation of knowledge I earn, 
I forge true key of salvation from truth 
while chanting spells of spiritual desire 
that dispel dark ignorant fog of faith 
so I can perceive essence of all things. 

At pulsing flash of weird epiphany 
I sing in harmony with lightning strikes 
that I am wise Poemander of the mind, 
for I am with you everywhere in time 
as Nobody who wears new Mask of God 
to dethrone Jesus and reign as World King. 

On Emerald Tablet of sly Mercury 
my name is carved with dragon runes of truth 
so when my soul is born from fertile womb 
of Sophia Ishtar in vast Hall of Stars 
you will see my face in Mirror of Faith 
when I claim right to rule Byzantium.