Weird Seraphic Key

Weird Seraphic Key
© Surazeus
2024 10 30

If you find me behind my paper face, 
arrange nine infinity stones of truth 
in temple garden on the mountain slope 
to combine spiritual stillness of faith 
with aesthetic mastery of dream chaos 
so you know who you are before you die. 

That heavy thing that nestles in my heart, 
with unacknowledged guilt of wanting love, 
reveals true faces of people I love 
who wear paper faces for Halloween 
to meet dead ancestors on moonlit streets 
who give us secret treasures of the past. 

While drawing hieroglyphs on sea-beach sand 
I analyze flashing state of my mind 
to excise guilt for crimes I commit not, 
despite erratic scenes of frantic thought, 
so I wear paper face with demon growl 
to frighten devils of my heart away. 

Each painting of Christ on cathedral walls 
still standing in old European towns, 
despite devils dropping bombs from airplanes, 
represents each ancestor of my line 
as living men with genes of Jupiter 
who claimed divine right to rule Wonderland. 

As wounded Fisher King on throne of bones, 
I send noble knights into the waste land 
to overthrow oppressors from tall castles 
and place jeweled crowns of authority 
on heads of girls who understand their people, 
then enforce their laws in the market place. 

With boat of Alastor on one fine day 
I sail from Isle of Skye to Patmos Isle, 
and dig up corpse of Jesus from his cave 
where, written on his holy savior robe, 
I will find secret Revelation code 
to help me navigate dark maze of myths. 

Then back to the orange groves of Florida 
I sail to visit the Orlando graveyard 
where parents of my mother lie together, 
half hidden under piles of wind-blown leaves, 
to find the ancient lyre of Mercury 
that Bob once played while singing holy hymns. 

Wearing paper face of the troubadour 
I roam our land from sea to shining sea 
to translate new-spelled prophecies of fate 
from timeless melody of wind and sea 
to puzzling riddles no one understands, 
except those pierced by weird seraphic key.