In The Great Unknown

In The Great Unknown
© Surazeus
2025 04 02

When the Phoenix of my heart spreads fire wings 
and rises from nest of the Burning Bush, 
I follow her flight to the Great Unknown 
on signless road that leads us anywhere 
till I stand weeping by the Lake of Dreams 
where First Mother first taught me how to sing. 

My mother keeps the secrets of my heart 
that I have never revealed to myself 
which I now scatter as seeds on the ground 
so all my memories bloom in daffodils 
that children pick where they play in the field 
where skulls of gods have crumbled into dirt. 

These fragments of forgotten history, 
which I find strewn on hard cathedral floor 
when its rose window was shattered by bombs, 
contain dramatic scenes of psychic fate 
that I assemble in collage of tropes 
to create new world view from random hopes. 

Concentric circles of haphazard thoughts 
that drift in sparkling mist of wordless dread 
radiate from center of the spinning Earth 
so I become my most essential self 
while standing in blue twilight by the lake 
to feel subtle glint of stars pierce my heart. 

Down lengthening path of my endless life 
toward far horizon of my shadowed mind 
I always walk with steady pace of fear 
to gather courage in jewels of light 
in which I see first flash from dawn of time 
that luminates strange landscape of my heart. 

Inviolate flower of the Burning Bush 
transforms despair of hot volcano gas 
to glorious garden of profuse respect 
since I am surrogate mind for the Earth 
inspired to breathe brave spirit of the sky 
that cultivates nascent power of faith. 

Emerging from grim shadow of soft grass, 
she grabs my hand with tremulous concern 
and asks if I know where the Phoenix flies, 
so I give her the last pear of my heart, 
then write weird verse in book of fairy tales 
while the nightingale sings to us of death. 

Living together in the Great Unknown 
where the Phoenix nests in the Burning Bush, 
we cultivate pure energy of love 
that swells in juicy pears on twisted limbs, 
then cuddle in the boat of our romance 
and watch the sun rise from shimmer of the lake.