Sacred Scroll Of Melkhizath

Sacred Scroll Of Melkhizath
© Surazeus
2024 12 14

With Puff the magic dragon and King Lear 
I stroll the windy shores of Windermere 
to find the sacred scroll of Melkhizath 
with map that shows the hidden Golden Path 
we must follow to save democracy 
from brilliant candor of hypocrisy. 

With honest truth I may out-shout the storm 
in vain attempt to formulate the norm 
designed by Star Wraith to contain the soul 
that spirals waves across the sandy shoal 
I wade across to island of the fool 
who secretly invents the useful tool. 

I dream about my house on River Styx 
where nameless fairies play conceptual tricks 
that bind my spirit with frail spider skein 
to keep me safe along the country lane, 
yet I name every ghost inside its walls 
since they prefer to dwell in waterfalls. 

Though quality of darkness is desire, 
I choose to leave the grand cathedral choir 
and journey by myself on signless roads 
to lonely meadows of the singing toads 
who teach me secret of psychic pretense 
when I breathe light from nakedness of sense. 

From cold colliding rockets of the mind 
I wander endless garden of the blind 
who gather mute in menace of our fate 
to never breach the weird celestial gate 
with stiff excitement of the psychic spark 
since joy attends our picnic in the park. 

I keep my memories in the secret box 
Pandora gave me with key to its locks 
because she wants to understand the tune 
that rings from sea waves of the tidal moon, 
so we sit chatting by the rune-star well 
on mossy stones till ringing of the bell. 

With careful attention to my world view 
I assemble puzzle pieces I drew 
to recite strange names of the disappeared, 
ambiguous with demons I once feared, 
though the sea pauses when the truth is told, 
because the book of wisdom never sold. 

Look for me each day on the vacant shore 
as you paint my face on the unlocked door, 
and watch for my postcards from edge of time 
which prove our hearts beat in rhythm with slime 
for we have found the ancient Golden Path 
first blazed and named by faith of Melkhizath.