Map Of Everywhere

Map Of Everywhere
© Surazeus
2025 04 05

The house that became the house of my heart 
in the town that is the town of my heart 
provides safe haven for my secret dreams 
that bloom delicate as exotic flowers 
in ontological hothouse of truth 
that lures honey bees from forest of gloom. 

The signless road that goes through my heart town 
will lead me to every town in the world 
if I journey far enough beyond home 
to find every house where I used to live 
has disappeared from map of everywhere 
which leaves me stranded in the wilderness. 

Thus with the lyre of Mercury in hand 
I act as guide for refugees from wars 
who flee from houses their ancestors built 
when greedy tyrants bomb their paradise, 
but they refuse to follow me back home 
and scatter far across the crowded land. 

Because I make up spirit-cheering songs 
while wandering lost in land of everywhere, 
I realize each road that leads somewhere else 
will take someone back to once was their home 
unless they decide to go anywhere 
unmapped by rich men who control all land. 

The house that was the house of happy lives 
weeps for its walls and doors blown out by bombs, 
and calls the names of those who lived there once 
with claim it is their destined paradise, 
and though they stop on some far distant road 
they turn away and will return no more. 

One hundred thousand years of spinning time 
my ancestors walked along flowing streams 
from mountain valleys down to ocean shores 
to understand the hydrologic cycle 
where water circulates the atmosphere 
so life may flourish on breast of the Earth. 

The Lake of Dreams in valley of bright stars 
is destination of my aching heart, 
so I compose new map of everywhere 
to navigate my course from birth to death 
for every conscious soul who ever lives 
to dwell in houses we build from our dreams. 

With open door of honest insolence 
I welcome no one to my secret home 
where I protect my family from harm 
when gangs of thieves with weapons of desire 
rampage across the land of hopeless faith, 
yet I will sell you map of everywhere.