Puzzles Of Timeless Thought

Puzzles Of Timeless Thought
© Surazeus
2024 06 15

Returning from underworld of my heart, 
I look at the upperworld of strange things 
without names that signify what they are 
from different angles of the curving light 
that turns me into the other I know, 
formed by geometry of timeless thought. 

Though sadness is the only boat I sail 
along frozen river of formless light 
where butterflies never move beyond fear, 
sense of displacement might soon separate 
my body from hour of conceptual death, 
measured by compassion of timeless thought. 

Snowflakes of random memories descend 
from faceless mirror of the silver sky 
to sparkle in hair of strangers I meet 
as they appear and disappear in dream 
of this real world where I shall wave and smile, 
discounted by reason of timeless thought. 

If I walk far enough on signless road, 
that always loops back to forgotten home, 
I will step outside great mask of my being 
to become all my ancestors who lived 
in houses they built, now vanished in dust, 
contrived by arrogance of timeless thought. 

Resilient purpose of my unplanned quest 
scatters nameless children in river vales 
who spring from my bones buried by the road 
that always leads them to the sea of words, 
because I choose to walk my secret way, 
aborted by despair of timeless thought. 

I never ask why roots sprout from my feet 
while I shroud ruins of cathedral halls 
where skeletons dance with crucified wings 
because I realize no gods live here 
in stone valley of hungry refugees, 
discarded by false hope of timeless thought. 

I tally every object I dream real 
in catalogs of fertile humanhood 
with rapturous wisdom of sad solitude 
that culminates in portrait of the mind 
more intimate than life stories we share, 
defined by mother tongue of timeless thought. 

I chart distant orb of the silver mask 
through which moon mother of the universe 
dreams our bodies awake in florid woods 
where we track footprints of our favorite ghosts 
in game of hide and seek we ever play, 
recorded by puzzles of timeless thought.