Infinitely-Looping Stair

Infinitely-Looping Stair
© Surazeus
2025 04 22

Phoebus builds bridges nobody can cross 
from turtle shells and feathers of quaint lies 
plucked from honest wings of the albatross 
because he wants to send sly language spies 
to foreign countries with mission to twist 
truth of their world view by the plagiarist. 

Free-market societies reduce life 
to production and consumption of tales 
which illustrate morals of mental strife 
to show what success or failure entails 
through tragedy of pride blinded by greed 
or comedy of love that fulfills need. 

Our prophets chanting spells of flashing verse 
design the meaning of life that provides 
incentive for compassion through the purse 
to help the broken people that wealth hides, 
urged by social justice to balance scales 
for salvation bought at holiday sales. 

Phoebus Christ opens hundred million doors 
to every house still standing in the world 
where grumbling teenagers perform their chores 
with psychic energy of the dream herald 
who will place your skull in museum hall 
after gentle death gives her clarion call. 

Hopeful people clutching old microphones 
gather on the Bridge of Audacity 
to chant spells of their poems to hungry stones 
with hard-earned credits of tenacity 
which should reprogram how our brains perceive 
because every person needs time to grieve. 

Shocked by dissolution of the mad king, 
who tries to control how the People think, 
we share sad stories of our suffering 
while gliding on ice at the skating rink, 
then sit with Buddha in garden of ferns 
where the bush of Moses forever burns. 

Regret for opportunities we miss 
inspires our eager passion to explore 
confusing labyrinth of the mind abyss 
where devils sell fantasies at the store 
with the neon sign that flashes our name 
to announce new winner of the fame game. 

Phoebus waits on the bridge that leads nowhere 
for crowds of workers in the dawn-lit fog 
who climb the infinitely-looping stair 
with mission to complete the catalog 
which chronicles fall of America 
and subsequent rise of Zarathia.