Steorberht The Astronaut

Steorberht The Astronaut
© Surazeus
2024 12 11

No reason for dollars to fall with snow 
and shroud city streets in quiet despair 
yet the girl in the red dress walks alone, 
holding the balloon with soul of the wolf, 
and the old mad prophet jumps off the bridge, 
thinking he can fly high on angel wings. 

Each dollar bill that flutters to the street 
imagines itself the last butterfly, 
yet the woman who floats down from the sky 
under umbrella of social reform 
calls out to the girl who hides her wild wolf 
when the mad prophet sinks into the sea. 

The butterfly that lands on the car roof 
thinks everything yellow must be the sun, 
yet the girl with the camera in her purse 
hurries past the mad prophet with pearl eyes 
who asks if she wants to buy angel wings, 
so she hides in the novel on the bench. 

The mad prophet with stolen angel wings 
asks the woman with the gun in her mouth 
if she would like to dance on bridge of hope, 
yet the girl who transforms into the wolf 
explains to the policeman with six arms 
she found the camera in the burning church. 

Dollar bills delicate as flakes of ash 
swirl upward from the writhing flames of fire 
burning in Notre Dame cathedral spire, 
yet mad prophet climbs flying buttresses 
and sits with the gargoyles safe under stars 
to watch Death searching for the wild wolf girl. 

Still in love with Steorberht the astronaut, 
the wolf girl takes pictures of the church fire 
with the camera she stole from Lucifer, 
yet the woman who captures nameless ghosts 
smiles as she tends the mad prophet with love 
who shows her jewels he found in the sea. 

Enchanted by glow of her moon-black eyes, 
Steorberht kisses the wolf girl with sweet love, 
so she takes him in restored Notre Dame 
with pillars and walls gleaming white as milk, 
then sings heart-breaking hymn of honest fear 
when he places crown of hope on her head. 

Annoyed Steorberht has stolen the spotlight, 
mad prophet gives him arcane book of spells, 
yet the shy astronaut fails to go mad, 
instead he crowns wolf girl queen of the damned 
who sing hymns of despair in angel choir 
when falling dollar bills turn into snow.