Grand Canyon Of Faith

Grand Canyon Of Faith
© Surazeus
2025 05 18

The gray-haired woman in the river boat 
commissions the white raven to retrieve 
gold pocket watch from the insolent knight 
who sells his armor at the antique shop 
for coat of many colors he can wear 
when he attends the posh gallery show. 

The sad angel curled in the oak book shelf 
requests the red-furred cat with serpent eyes 
for pair of wings the snowy owl sells 
then watches the passenger jet of faith 
scatter fake clouds of arrogance with prayer 
while the cat and the owl play game of chess. 

The spider man with thirty-thousand eyes, 
who lives in the Grand Canyon of faith, 
weaves tapestry of human history 
that presents the prophets in dreamless caves 
of every religion mankind invents 
to translate wisdom of toads in the swamp. 

The young school girl wearing long cotton skirt 
climbs down the side of the high red brick wall 
on rusty ladder of excessive faith 
because she wants to ask the robot clown 
how he can always make sad people laugh 
with confusing riddles no one could solve. 

The car mechanic in the large garage 
decides that engines represent the heart 
demonic angels build for time machines 
that lonely people drive across the land 
where Roland blows ivory oliphant horn 
though no one rescues his soldiers from bombs. 

The small-church pastor wearing silver suit 
flips through pages of the Bible to find 
elusive passage that explains how faith 
can save the fool from dancing off the cliff, 
then drinks beer by the oak and laughs all night 
at absurd beauty of the butterfly. 

The serious magician with yew wand 
transforms the toad long croaking in the swamp 
into accountant for the country bank 
tasked to adjudicate requests for loans 
farmers apply to fund their future crops 
in field where Mithra tames the Minotaur. 

The gray-haired woman in the river boat 
gives me the wand she uses to catch fish 
so I ask the school girl to marry me 
so we can translate song of nothingness 
to silly fairy tales children can read 
before they grow up to work in finance.