Glamor Of The Hope Trap

Glamor Of The Hope Trap
© Surazeus
2024 05 21

Sick from ennui of hot afternoon light 
gleaming green on oak trees and power lines 
frozen in fake photo of passing time, 
the old seer lies numb beside potted plants, 
aching to sing with melancholy hope 
while messages ding unread on his phone. 

Patting splintered hull of overturned boat 
in which he once sailed to island of bones, 
he stirs with desire to leave happy home 
and find lost castle of the crownless prince 
that falls into ruin on wind-swept cape 
where no one waits for him in drenching rain. 

Attempts to calculate process of fate, 
that scatters our souls on multiple planes 
across dimensions of our social game, 
disorient focus of his psychic trance, 
so he maps our multiverse in raindrop 
that radiates soul through electric photon. 

Elusive Heaven humanity sought 
cannot be found except by humble pawns 
alone in the waste land who sing sad psalm 
with magic spell no savior can pronounce 
till our new cosmic herald wakes from sleep 
to analyze state of the holocene. 

Nausea gnaws his heart at clever deceit 
of tyrants who run world money machines 
but he cannot escape their empire scheme, 
so he joins noble knights in demon hunts 
to fight holy crusade with royal troop, 
riding Pegasus to conquer the moon. 

Madness of rage drives him to howl and shoot 
to ensure salvation through magic runes 
with vain hope of fame from glory of doom 
while he figures out what everyone wants 
who are fooled by glamor of the hope trap 
which he set as part of his master plan. 

Reborn as lithe spiritual acrobat, 
he joins convoy of pilgrim minivans 
who search for paradise in hologram 
so he can solve riddles that make no sense 
till sweet wine overflows his golden cup 
while he stares into god-eye of the sun. 

With Mother Amen in pyramid hut 
he foresees the future empire of guns, 
so he encodes in glyphs tragic outcome 
when oppressed tribes must kill in self-defense, 
lead by Wise Guardian King archetype 
when he finds in his heart the fateful sign.