White Half-Sunk Boat

White Half-Sunk Boat
© Surazeus
2025 03 17

The pear on the porcelain plate desires 
soft caress of delicate leaves to feel 
passion of hundred million open doors 
that call the old man in white half-sunk boat 
who splashes river water to explain 
how generosity of love seals fate. 

He tells happy children in the schoolyard 
that he must go to the jungle of fear 
and fight the monsters of despairing greed 
where eyeless angels float among tall trees 
to calculate sentient grade of true love 
sold by the old man in white half-sunk boat. 

Stumbling over the invisible wall 
that forms the boundary line of arrogance 
between opposing nation-states of mind, 
he waits still in white half-sunk boat of faith 
for birds of paradise to claim gold keys 
so they can live in castles made of sand. 

Each book he steals from vast library hall, 
that describes maneuver tactics of war, 
he scatters in the muddy field of corn 
along with the long-forgotten brass horn 
that Jericho blew to defeat the king 
in revolution of white half-sunk boat. 

With crozier forged from dragon-crippling brass 
Patricius strides on snake-infested shore 
to fight death-eaters in the ring of stones 
who oppress people of the Emerald Isle 
which frees their bodies from their mind control 
so they gather by the river at dusk. 

Ignoring old man in white half-sunk boat 
who prophesies the falling of fake bombs, 
the priest twirls crozier in tense martial stance 
and fights fierce shaman of the serpent cult 
for who has right to live in paradise 
and eat fruit of the sacred knowledge tree. 

The pear on the table of puzzle shards 
shines suddenly bright with ten thousand eyes 
who all gaze at glass screen of timeless dreams 
which display faceless ghosts of politics 
as noble heroes who sacrificed life 
to save their families for the photograph. 

Torn photograph of his large family 
twitches in white half-sunk boat of regret 
so he limps slow with stoic agony 
to buy his eyes back from the jester-king 
then sits on back porch with stringless guitar 
to sing heart-breaking psalms of fortitude.