Ocean Heart Of The Earth

Ocean Heart Of The Earth
© Surazeus
2024 11 18

The sly boy with wings no one can see 
taps the egg-shaped stone on the desert dune 
till it cracks open with flash of blue light 
to reveal the ocean heart of the Earth, 
so he bears it carefully in both hands 
to find his snake-eyed mother in the tree. 

Slithering in branches of the long-dead tree, 
Melusine gazes at heart of the Earth 
that shimmers dark blue in hands of her son 
who asks her how its light creates our soul, 
so she throws his geode in the waste land 
where jagged jewels burst in gushing streams. 

Dancing in desert waste land of despair, 
Poseidon chants primeval water spell 
so waves of water gushing from geode 
swirl ever-expanding cycles of waves 
that surge in moon-ruled tides of opulence 
to fill vast desert canyons with deep seas. 

Floating high on enormous ocean swells, 
that bellow loud with deep thunderous roar 
as clanging bells of waves at granite cliffs, 
Neptunus leaps on rainbow-dragon wings 
and dives down in deep abyss of desire 
to swirl around tall hydrothermal vents. 

Weaving carbon rings into coils of genes, 
Tethys composes protein chromosomes 
to replicate their patterns in bound cells 
which multiply into organic beings 
who evolve through four hundred million years 
fish to lizard to mouse to cat to ape. 

Oceanos walks submerged in ocean wave, 
buoyed upright by deep breath in his lungs, 
then emerges from surging tide of change 
to stride upright, well-balanced on two legs, 
clutching fish he caught with clamp of his thumb, 
and lays his offering on small ziggurat. 

Roasting fish over flames on altar stone, 
Dagon offers strip of delicious steak 
to each person who kneels in humble prayer, 
while Ishtar plays lyre and sings hymn of life 
describing how wise Uranus and Gaia 
created our world from ocean of light. 

The sly boy with wings no one can see 
runs with horses along the ocean shore 
with joyful passion of his beating heart, 
then kneels and draws images in the sand 
showing Alpheus chasing Arethusa 
who bears Artemis with heart of the Earth.