Weird Telephone That Rings

Weird Telephone That Rings
© Surazeus
2023 11 01

Weird telephone that rings inside my brain 
wants me to understand conceptual pain 
people feel when governments bomb their home 
in myths recording where refugees roam 
in never-ending search for Promised Land 
which is some place we die in our last stand. 

I try to rescue Lady of Shalott 
from cruel misogyny of Lancelot 
who leads crusade to conquer Holy Land 
yet loses game of chess on the seastrand 
where Death teaches my skull to prophesy 
how children of the conquered multiply. 

The teeming mass of people without names 
who enter world court with outdated land claims 
cry out to God for justice to be served 
for stolen land where stories are preserved 
which code in riddles secret genocides 
erased by silent swirl of ocean tides. 

Each valley of our spinning Earth conceals 
ruins of temples crushed by greedy wheels 
when armies sent by gods in jeweled crowns 
dismantle agency of private towns 
till we are nothing more than dust in wind 
we encounter driving the highway bend. 

Blind prophet in high tower by the sea 
tunes his brain to weird mental frequency 
that channels wordless feelings of mankind 
which he encodes in language fear designed 
to translate horror of bloody world war 
into prize-winning samples of state lore. 

Through artificial intelligence codes 
our blind seer maps network of psychic roads 
that bind our hearts in lineage of dreams 
where lonely wanderers follow mute streams 
till we meet beneath apple tree of fate 
to ponder duty of the peaceful state. 

Though zeroes teach us phosphorus of light 
encircles cosmic garden of the right, 
we eat sweet fruit in paradise of faith 
till rockets fired from castle of God Wraith 
destroy our hopes and dreams with honest prayer 
transformed through psychological warfare. 

Weird telephone that rings inside my heart 
connects my body to the starless chart 
which determines fate of my life and death 
based on where I am born with divine breath, 
yet I will build virtual world to replace 
my nation bombed by the man with no face.