Bodies Of The Innocent

Bodies Of The Innocent
© Surazeus
2024 05 02

Gray reality of the pristine mind, 
encoded in fairy tales of the blind, 
present strange world I do not recognize 
on television screen of spider eyes, 
so I walk nowhere on the signless road 
to map new universe of the God Toad. 

When students gather on the college quad, 
declaring mission of the Justice Squad 
to protest genocide in distant lands 
with mottoes on signs in their feisty hands, 
the three-eyed jester of the holy book 
walks desert waste land to find the soul hook. 

Since people in the small refugee state, 
surrounded by huge nations seething hate, 
fight to preserve their lives against attack 
by killing, their actions incite harsh flack 
bursting in fireworks of aggressive hope, 
inspired by tales of those who learn to cope. 

Old bearded prophet at the pearly gates 
hesitates in sermon against cruel Fates, 
and stares at bodies of the innocent 
on both sides massacred by accident, 
then calls for coming of messiah sleuth 
whose will could unite both sides with hard truth. 

But, like Cassandra warning of world war, 
he finds his words ignored behind locked door, 
though he wanders the busy avenue 
mumbling insights from his global world view 
where he hopes for new cultural rebirth 
that nurtures United Nations of Earth. 

Rather than perform role in rites of fame 
that traps his spirit in stereotyped name, 
the half-blind bard, who maps world history 
in cave of dreams, codes the illusory 
with riddles that conceal fate of the world 
till second coming of the cosmic herald. 

Though rival nations fighting over land 
kill each other with tyrannical hand, 
their children marry and produce new tribe 
who lives together with communal vibe 
once new messiah unites their world views, 
inspired by love of the heaven-born Muse. 

World empires rise and fall in waves of power, 
designed and controlled by ghost in the tower, 
but lovers always share romantic tryst 
by apple tree where Adam and Eve kissed 
till Lilith drove them out of paradise 
to conjure new myth of self-sacrifice.