Dream Of The World

Dream Of The World
© Surazeus
2024 07 19

He walks to the store in the evening rain 
but stands outside under the bare dead tree
so long his purple shadow disappears 
as words in books that no one ever reads 
till he reaches his hand to touch the light 
that erases him from dream of the world. 

He talks to the ghost in the Dead End sign 
to ask if anyone has found his name 
that slithers away in weeds of the lot 
where seven cars sit rusting in the heat 
till he remembers why Glow Cloud expects 
Death to recalculate dream of the world. 

He picks up smooth stones on the ocean beach 
in sacred quest to find the Eye of God 
that always watches him perform his role 
assigned by mermaid on the giant stone 
till he sees stars explode inside her eyes 
that compose puzzle for dream of the world. 

He loves scrounging in the cave of lost hope 
and carving god souls from his heart of stone 
as statues that stand in museum halls 
ten thousand years after he breathed the air 
that still swirls around in forests today 
through inspiration from dream of the world. 

He tricks people into believing lies 
about the tragic childhood he survived 
so they give him cash he uses to buy 
truth from Beauty who floats high in the sky 
eager to steal the book nobody reads 
that details comedic dream of the world. 

He throws his plans for the future away 
while staring at the television screen 
that sucks swirls of his spirit in its eye 
with flashing formulas of weeping sprites 
till he becomes the ghost in the machine 
whose prophecies design dream of the world. 

He cares not for the tragic fate of fame 
so every year he invents the new name 
he wants everyone on the street to shout 
when they watch him succeed writing old plot 
by exercising power he has not 
when he writes new script for dream of the world. 

He votes for the actor to play the king 
and offers his services as the clown 
then tries to call God on the telephone 
but Jupiter answers by the third ring 
from the bullet that will start world war three 
as we reorganize dream of the world.