River Full Of Fish

River Full Of Fish
© Surazeus
2025 05 02

Strange stories of boys and their fathers bleed 
sap from trees of ancient forests they saw 
with sharp-toothed tool of mute fear to construct 
one lone temple by river full of fish 
that expands into the vast city maze 
which I catalog with crow quill by lamplight. 

Each boulder of memory cut from clouds, 
which I roll up the hill of eager hope, 
rings with the voices of men without names 
who build enormous castles on high hills 
where they enforce authority of theft 
through violent assertion of their law. 

Whichever direction I choose to go 
away from oppression of greedy thugs, 
who call themselves the holy knights of god, 
I measure distance beyond prison walls 
which they insist will protect me from harm 
to find paradise outside their fake Heaven. 

Bells in the monastery of blind ghouls 
shock angels awake from graves of despair 
so they dance laughing in the sudden rain 
till they bring baskets of fruit to their mothers 
who recreate the world of dream machines 
into sprawling cities of shining towers. 

When I enter the small temple of wood, 
hidden deep in maze of wide asphalt streets, 
I find idol of every famous man 
venerated by teachers as wise gods 
who taught us angry apes how to be human, 
so I smash them all with Mercurian wand. 

I walk toward radiance of the glowing screen, 
fixed as oval mask over face of god, 
to read weird history of the human race 
written in constellations seers invent 
to give fluid apparitions of faith 
special habitation with divine form. 

Laughing at me with eyes that glitter stars, 
three Fates unravel network of my brain 
to weave with tangled threads of memory 
new tapestry of truth that frames my actions 
through strict ontology of moral rules 
with reprogrammed narrative I embody. 

Reflected clear in blue frame of the sea, 
my face embodies psychic energy 
which Earth programs into my dreaming brain 
so I fold water through wings of desire 
by listening to voice of humanity 
that whispers secrets in vibrating waves.