Care For Rejected Ones

Care For Rejected Ones
© Surazeus
2025 01 12

Through intertextual tanglement of time, 
Angels spin around on the mirror moon, 
debating with God about about taste of dirt 
while Shamash carves symbolon seal of faith 
to correspond with psychic energy 
inherent in the stone cracked by the Word. 

Because all things must pass in the dark night, 
the lonely witch who loves the laughing frog 
decides to visit Shamash in his cave 
where she asks him with voice of river stones 
if he would honor her with a real name, 
so he watches horses gallop with wind. 

"Because you are daughter of Queen Inanna, 
who killed the gardener who sired your soul, 
I name you Nanaya, Princess of Love, 
since you always care of rejected ones, 
and that star shining in the morning sky 
is pure wellspring of your immortal soul." 

Walking toward ziggurat where Ishtar reigns, 
Nanaya finds young warrior by dead tree 
wounded by small knife stabbed into his breast, 
so she removes the sorrow from his heart 
and heals his wound with red thread of desire, 
nursing him till he becomes strong again. 

Traveling with Nanaya to her home, 
Marbiti explains how he was attacked. 
"When I was passing through town of Kazalla, 
I met the beautiful woman Namrat 
who begged me with tears to help her escape, 
so I escorted her safe to the woods." 

"Yet gang of men with spears and well-honed knives, 
sent by her husband Numushda, attacked 
and wounded me while they whisked her away." 
Taking his hand, Nanaya smiles with joy. 
"Bind your heart with mine as loyal husband 
to guard my life when I am crowned as queen." 

Laughing at fantasy of the young girl 
who wears tattered dress of a poor milkmaid, 
Marbiti leaves her at the gate of Ur. 
"Wherever I roam, my heart is my home, 
for I am not imprisoned by the hearth." 
Nanaya weeps by the caring fig tree. 

Sliding down rope from his hot-air balloon, 
Shamash stands before the arrogant warrior. 
"Since you rejected the Goddess of Love, 
disdaining to guard her life as the queen, 
I enslave you to work in my gem mind." 
Nanaya runs after him till he is gone.