Code Of Dream Jihads

Code Of Dream Jihads
© Surazeus
2024 10 22

When I retrieve the sorrow you discard 
and swallow it with sugar-coated fear 
my mind expands from fractured mirror shard 
huge as the world run by atomic gear 
through cosmic engine angels operate 
in bid to extract bold respect from hate. 

The great horned owl in oak tree of concern 
observes lost children wearing masks of gods 
revel at midnight with false hope to learn 
chemical equations of dream jihads 
when they threaten kings in castles with flame 
if they refuse to play the Jester Game. 

We think we understand ourselves so well 
that we express desires without constraint, 
but something strange occurs when a church bell 
clangs with wordless angst of the bitter saint 
who drives nowhere on highway of lost hope, 
then writes textbook explaining how we cope. 

Without routine of clocks to track our needs 
we stumble deaf on desert railroad tracks 
with sacred mission to plant apple seeds 
our fathers stole to pay heavenly tax 
imposed by Dream Thief in high castle tower 
whose lonely son spends years painting one flower. 

Programming code of dream jihads all night, 
I redesign world paradigm of truth 
that must include state secrets of soul flight 
preached as salvation by messiah sleuth 
whose never-seen face shines with stellar beams 
which luminate concept of mental seems. 

Impact of changes in the atmosphere 
conceal aggressive greed of oligarchs 
who fume with rage that we do not revere 
their attempts to duplicate meadow larks, 
which represents our sacred right to vote 
for the wizard who navigates our boat. 

Content to browse books in library stacks 
where ghosts of the dead listen to our thoughts, 
we watch Janus hone double-bladed ax 
with intent to lead army of robots 
to fight King Midas when he steals the crown 
that Jesus wears when he drives around town. 

Watching Arthur forge sharp sword from the stone 
that fell with blazing light from field of stars, 
we listen as Death plays flute carved from bone 
till Barsanti invents engines for cars 
we drive as time machines on signless road 
to meditate in swamps with the God Toad.