Back To Jerusalem At Last

Back To Jerusalem At Last
© Surazeus
2023 12 25

Strange stories we tell on cold winter nights 
about blind ghosts among red flowers weeping 
reveal harsh ancient truths we would forget 
as we drink hot wine to lament life fleeting 
with wild tempestuous storms that blow away 
and leave us in sunlight as fruit trees sway. 

Sweet scent of dinner roasting in the hearth 
brings us back home inside fragile walls dreaming 
too long with numb complacency of peace 
till planes of tyranny shatter with bombing 
this prison paradise where angels show 
death approaches with gentle fall of snow. 

Since none are left to record our despair 
long after wind disperses cold ash smoking, 
we gather in hard rubble of our hopes 
to sing hymns of our savior never coming, 
as we walk backward on the signless road 
with nothing but heavy hearts for our load. 

Alone within the murderous winter blast, 
I find wind-worn statue of Odin bleeding 
tears of anger from his demonic heart 
to measure meteors from starless skies streaming 
that twist our principles with hungry angst 
in search for dark vale where we dwell ensconced. 

Through revolution of the hardy mind, 
eager to transform with the times unchanging, 
we fight harsh tyranny of castle kings 
who relinquish power of wealth unwilling, 
when engine of fate realigns our stars 
through quick replacement of horses with cars. 

Perched on cathedral wall of world empire, 
with arrogant wings of pride overreaching, 
I lunge from Heaven with demonic urge 
to challenge the general with tanks skull-crushing, 
till my world vanishes in flames of war 
when the hidden dragon begins to roar. 

When birthtown of their ancient tribal god 
is bombed to rubble by the mad king screaming, 
the new world savior is randomly born 
from humble frightened mother past redeeming, 
so crippled dragon born from nuclear blast 
shambles back to Jerusalem at last. 

Yet far away in Appalachian hills 
the half-blind prophet bard in anguish mumbling 
erases clear epiphany from truth 
which conceals grand plan of the wizard scheming 
to spread democracy to the whole world 
as holy mission of the cosmic herald.