Countless Versions Of Truth

Countless Versions Of Truth
© Surazeus
2025 01 19

Waiting for the world to completely change, 
Sariel drives busy streets of America 
to study face of each individual 
behind windshield of their mission in life 
who gazes at the future they create 
each time they turn against the rules of time. 

To the one with the heart of righteousness 
the world is vast with possibilities, 
so Sariel opens every fear-locked door 
to paint encoded prophecies of hope 
on public walls with invisible ink 
so only those about to die can read. 

When the sky is black against sunlit trees 
in the late winter afternoon of doom, 
Sariel knows this is not the hour of fire 
because world change of the apocalypse 
will not occur until the Phoenix Queen 
rises from revolutionary flames. 

Though the Water Demon hurls hurricanes 
to devastate frail cities of mankind, 
Sariel gathers five elemental pearls 
to help Nuwa seal cruel Dragon of Greed 
with four pillars of glowing crystal beams 
so Nature nurtures our communities. 

Yet the Fire Demon sweeps down from dry hills 
to obliterate mansions of the famous 
who wander homeless with hands full of ash 
instead of gold statues they won from fate 
for how they perform characters of gods 
as retribution for beautiful lies. 

Watching world-view dome of America 
fracture into countless versions of truth, 
Sariel flies above the broken land 
to meet with three angelic messengers, 
Lucifer, Icarus, and Earendil, 
high on snow-frosted peak of Mount Takoma. 

Astonished at the state of politics, 
where Midas squats again in the White House, 
turning everything he touches with greed 
into fake gold to scam his followers 
in vain bid to crown himself King of Earth, 
Sariel gives Nuwa the Wand of Zambor. 

Laughing with joyful curiosity 
to comprehend the Missing All of faith, 
Sariel leaps across rift of pride to help 
Nuwa seal Midas in Pool of Narcissus, 
then founds new nation of Zarathia 
on greed-shattered ruins of America.