Houses Of Our Bones

Houses Of Our Bones
© Surazeus
2025 01 26

We make beautiful houses of our bones 
so we can hide from mental predators 
in shelters camouflaged with broken limbs 
that fall from the Tree of Knowledge at dawn 
cracked by mocking storm of arrogant lies 
till we all get jobs as government spies. 

We are the only people in the world 
hiding wings in our lungs with special care, 
safe in grass of Mount Moriah with goats 
who teach us how to talk about our souls 
discarded with trash in the wordless wells 
stuck in dictionaries our pastor sells. 

We build tables from tombstones of dead gods 
so we can feast on fruits our labor yields 
in middle of the city where Death waits 
for everyone to leave church after noon 
where Gorgon asks Perseus on a date 
so he decides to go along with fate. 

We refuse to howl at the end of time, 
stuck in the chapel by the lake of fish, 
yet sing in harmony with whistling trains 
that make the world shudder when they pass by 
the cemetery where corpses emerge, 
resurrected through the government purge. 

We give each other presents filled with air 
so we appreciate the nothing of death 
based on treasures in attic of the mind 
we find and sell to strangers passing by 
while lounging on the front porch of our home 
and ponder this urge to go out and roam. 

We splinter our souls against wall of pride, 
attempting to assimilate our souls 
with strangers in the land of laughing clowns 
who walk their dogs in river parks all day 
as bombs destroy the homes where we once played 
and disassemble brains of those who stayed. 

We cook our memories at the barbecue 
inside the palace of one thousand rooms 
to worship idol of the noble boy 
who sacrificed himself to save the world 
which leaves him hanging on electric pole 
because anybody can play his role. 

We discover many ways to perceive 
multiple aspects of one spinning globe 
since there are many ways to analyze 
secret meaning of most common events 
which code the blues to cure our loneliness 
for all must cross Bridge of Forgetfulness.