Weird Trance Of Faith

Weird Trance Of Faith
© Surazeus
2023 09 20

While wandering in dark evening down the road 
beneath gold lamps that glow with fairy wings, 
Faust hears melancholy horn of the train, 
that wakes the Erdgeist from demonic sleep, 
blow soft across weed fields where horses graze, 
so he knows at last that Gretchen is gone. 

Through smoky bar, where boys in cowboy hats 
flirt with girls in skirts of denim and lace, 
Faust moves toward destiny bought with his soul, 
and after tuning strings of his guitar 
he sings sad ballad of the lonely girl 
who leaves town on the train going nowhere. 

Where Saturn slumbers by dark gurgling stream 
sweet Amaryllis, with sparkling blue eyes, 
dances stealthily in weird trance of faith 
to call from gloom of bottomless abyss 
seamonster Cetus with serpentine grace 
of the train that slithers among old hills. 

With voice of thunder that condemns our hunt, 
which tramples crops and sheep in frantic lust, 
half-blinded Saturn rises from despair 
and lumbers dark across the ruined town, 
destroyed by bombs from airplanes in black clouds, 
to kneel before empty tomb of Lenore. 

Though broken is the golden bowl of faith, 
and wild bells toll across the Stygian stream, 
sweet Amaryllis strides into the bar 
and listens to pale Faust sing tales of woe, 
in love with how his Mercury voice wails 
with melancholy passion of the train. 

They walk together on the busy street, 
the Gothic Bard beside the Pixie Sprite, 
so opposite in temperament of soul, 
then linger with beers on the river bridge 
to watch fireworks explode across dark sky, 
then almost kiss with awkward shy surprise. 

He sings no paean for the days of old, 
and she recites no elegy for joy, 
yet they feel spark of something beyond fear 
weld fractured hearts with art of Kintsugi, 
so they hold hands and walk the signless road 
where sad trains wail in misty moonlit night. 

Beneath the apple tree where Eve found love 
Faust and Amaryllis exchange gold rings 
and pledge eternal love on road of hope 
to generate new life from ache of death, 
deciding name for child they must create 
will bind protective spell to guard her soul.