Voices Of The Ancient Dead

Voices Of The Ancient Dead
© Surazeus
2024 03 31

Clear voices of the people in the past 
echo down the endless labyrinth of time 
through the lamentations and blasphemies 
their hearts repeat across ten thousand years 
in each small temple and grand citadel 
which I detect as whisper of their fears. 

Almost faded in breeze outside my door, 
heart-broken cries of sorrow from the past 
penetrate my spirit with sudden breath 
that wakes their dim dream of desperate hope 
in startled consciousness of my new mind 
so I hold their thoughts trembling in my hand. 

With growing awareness of bitter pain 
so many people of the constant past 
suffered in silence of confident faith 
I study seething passions of their hearts 
recorded in fragments of elegies 
they wrote in letters of stark sentences. 

Across perpetual waves of flowing time 
their thoughts encoded in visions of truth 
translate amorphous feelings of their minds 
in arcane thought-rhymes of parallel verse 
reflecting illogical sparkle of love 
that motivates our project to survive. 

Alone on sunlit Mount Takoma peak, 
which mirrors Parnassus and Helicon 
as holy space where Muses inspire seers, 
I hear these voices of people long dead 
who lived on Earth the past ten thousand years 
swirl around me in wild cacophony. 

Through alchemy of souls in diamond eyes, 
encased in sun-bright ice stone of our minds, 
I translate voices of the ancient dead 
to heart-enchanting spells of thrilling tales 
that might inspire with visions of success 
lonely souls who wander in the waste land. 

Thus brave spell-casters with poetic spark 
forge new word-riddles in prophetic poems 
as polished lens for kaleidoscope eyes 
to focus attention of curious minds 
on ever-shifting puzzle of the truth 
that conjures virtual model of the world. 

Clear voices of people on Earth today 
resonate through harmony of intent 
with voices of the people in the past 
as we join global choir of mortal souls 
to sing heart-aching elegy of faith 
that people of tomorrow understand.