Uncanny Gift Of Sorrow

Uncanny Gift Of Sorrow
© Surazeus
2024 10 28

Uncanny gift of sorrow in his hand 
inspires the heart of Caliban with joy, 
so he carves mask of his face from the land 
and plays with statue of God as his toy, 
till raven in the mountain oak cries out 
to understand what it is all about. 

Unable to remember his true name, 
Caliban crawls over huge jagged rocks 
to ask the dragon to play his new game 
reversing process of time with star clocks 
so he can find secret treasure of faith 
as fear embodied by the cosmic wraith. 

Unearthly wail of happiness at dawn 
startles Caliban awake from despair, 
so he strips naked on the castle lawn 
while Rapunzel weeps on the broken stair 
because sad raven she kept in gold cage 
has escaped death to the next psychic stage. 

Unready for resurrection through fate, 
when molecules reconstitute his soul 
in robot body that could calculate 
clever trick to return through the loophole, 
Caliban rides the white horse with no name 
in grand parade through the City of Fame. 

Uneasy sense of doom foretold by jokes, 
written by crippled ballerina bride, 
spurs Caliban to encourage his folks 
to accept his mission as the Dream Guide 
who brings salvation to the bitter world 
as humble grandson of the cosmic herald. 

Unconscious spirit of the humming brain 
manifests childhood trauma of the heart 
as monstrous demons, who savor mind pain 
that cannot be found on any dream chart, 
sent by Jupiter to haunt humankind 
with computing machines Hermes designed. 

Unreasonable request of the bank clerk 
confounds shy Caliban with secret hope 
that he may get to leave early from work 
and write self-help book about how to cope 
with people always trying to steal his thoughts 
because he knows where the corpse of God rots. 

Ungod appears as flame in glowing cloud 
and plays fragile flute carved from dragon bone 
so Caliban hopes his father is proud 
that he destroys idols with the rolling stone, 
then asks Rapunzel to conceal his ghost 
in conceptual framework of the lamppost.