Keeping My Soul Safe

Keeping My Soul Safe
© Surazeus
2024 05 12

Keeping my soul safe in the apple tree, 
with tight electric coils of mushroom brains, 
I drive car on long highway of success 
fueled by ambition of fake happiness, 
then walk with haunting music among grains 
that teach my mortal heart how to live free. 

Keeping my soul safe in the telephone, 
designed with modulations of field rows 
plowed by Cadmus who sows huge dragon teeth 
to train fierce warriors with religious faith, 
I build world empire based on wheat and cows, 
which I govern through the Sisyphus Stone. 

Keeping my soul safe in the sailing ship, 
built by the shipwright Argus with both hands 
from bones of dinosaurs found in dream cave, 
I translate magic spells of ocean waves 
to patriotic songs of warring lands 
who invent state truth using censorship. 

Keeping my soul safe in the dollar bill, 
printed by Pluto in cavern of hope, 
I strum gold strings on lyre of Mercury 
and sing national anthem of Liberty 
while lost boys in the army learn to cope 
in campaign to crown new King of the Hill. 

Keeping my soul safe in the story book, 
preserved in library of the blind ghost, 
I record deeds of gods who never lived 
in myths that tell how humans are conceived 
while singing in banquet hall for the host 
who praises sacred feast of the priest cook. 

Keeping my soul safe in the raven quill, 
I write epic tale of philosophers 
that programs new mental world-view code 
flashing in diamond eyes of the god toad 
who enthralls minds of army officers 
to obey commands of sky god Enlil. 

Keeping my soul safe in the idol form 
based on marble statue of Jupiter, 
which stands unmoving in museum hall, 
I return from Heaven as Parzival 
who steals Crown of Jesus from Lucifer 
to bind energy of the lightning storm. 

Keeping my soul safe in the rolling stone, 
that smashes statue of the tyrant king 
with curse of bureaucratic paperwork, 
I perform my role as government clerk 
mapping history of the world in the ring 
I wear as we stroll in the twilight zone.