Eruption Of The Mountain

Eruption Of The Mountain
© Surazeus
2024 05 18

Wild roaring wind that shakes the stoic pines 
cares nothing for dramatic lives of men 
who contest over who will rule the land, 
extracting minerals of conceptual wealth 
from bountiful bosom of Mother Earth, 
then leaves our sorrows scattered on wet streets. 

When secret ministry of frost transforms 
my meditative heart with secret code 
from fierce ambitious youth to solemn age, 
my eyes relive how children of my soul 
grow from babes in cradles to wise adults 
who follow eager hope down misty roads. 

My heart that pulses with ambitious faith, 
driving me down roads of creative play 
across deserts and mountains many years, 
now aches with numb contentment of desire 
from high achievement of my secret aim 
to sing in tune with Spirit of the Earth. 

Strolling stone-bounded shore of Lethe Stream 
among tall humming pines of eyeless ghosts, 
I linger in wide meadow where no birds 
sing routine songs of romantic desire, 
and gaze at gray clouds rolling from the sea 
that veil my vision of celestial realms. 

Beside the gushing river of lost dreams 
the old gray-bearded wizard of my soul, 
whose spirit wanders still in mountain vales, 
waves twisted oak wand with his gnarly hands 
that dispels clouds to reveal awful sight 
of his ancient mountain frosted with snow. 

As if enormous dragon with long neck 
stomps boldly forth from cave of chthonic rage, 
the whole world shakes with sudden rumbling roar 
when that ancient frosted mountain erupts 
with thunderous explosion of gray clouds 
that billow thick into the silver sky. 

We recreate the stories of our lives 
from scattered memories of our random hopes 
when we retrieve fragments of vivid fears 
to assemble puzzle of paradise 
as safe haven that could preserve our souls 
though we fade into twilight of our dreams. 

Though eruption of that mountain of fire 
seemed to portend apocalypse of greed, 
forty-four years of progress has transformed 
spirit of our nation from innocence 
to imperial pride of democracy 
that scatters ash of freedom on the world.