Earth Never Remembers My Name

Earth Never Remembers My Name
© Surazeus
2024 03 02

Since the Earth never remembers my name, 
which I carve into tombstone of my grave, 
I walk in shadows of her memories 
and sing expression of my sufferings 
because my vain search for paradise lost 
leads me to realize I create my own. 

Though the Earth never remembers my name, 
which I breathe as rain clouds in empty sky, 
I dance on lake shore of her memories 
with bold survivors of my family 
because our Tree of Life blossoms ripe fruit 
that nurtures fragile spirits of our minds. 

If the Earth never remembers my name, 
which flows in rivers to the fertile sea, 
I swim down to the hydrothermal vent 
where she generated my conscious mind 
from flashing chemicals of hungry hope 
that lives as immortal soul of my genes. 

While the Earth never remembers my name, 
which sprouts in flowers from dark fields of shame, 
I run along stream of her memories 
to construct temple of theology 
where I host grand feast of the sacrifice 
for refugees displaced by civil wars. 

While the Earth never remembers my name, 
which seethes from volcanoes of social change, 
I climb the highest mountain in the world 
to touch the first step on Stairway to Heaven, 
but fall back without wings of Icarus 
to carry me safe home to Wonderland. 

If the Earth never remembers my name, 
which I compose in storm-tuned symphony, 
I play piano in the fountain square 
where tourists gaze at sculpture of Neptune 
who stands watch on the stateless river shore 
to guard his home against invading thieves. 

Though the Earth never remembers my name, 
which I mold as idol of me from clay, 
I ponder how God is substance of things 
because she stands under material forms 
and dreams awake in visions of my brain 
for I am atoms flashing in the void. 

Since the Earth never remembers my name, 
which I program into computer code, 
I produce movies of her memories 
and sing expression of my ecstasies 
because I dwell in paradise of faith 
that I maintain with the person I love.