Singing Scorpion Of Faith

Singing Scorpion Of Faith
© Surazeus
2025 06 02

Though sorrow erases mouth of my mind 
I feel the singing scorpion of my tongue 
emerge from shadow of unspoken hopes 
to sting blind demon of despair with love 
though misery suffocates enduring souls 
who follow Eurydice from Sheol. 

With tedious recitation of dream spells 
in glass church of the singing scorpion 
I open ten thousand mouths of the dead 
who wish to partake in the sacrament 
to seek dubious blessing of divine grace 
embodied by ghost in the empty chair. 

Impassable threshold of broken doors 
obstructs progression of the hungry spy 
who transcribes riddles hidden in smooth stones 
based on code of the singing scorpion 
who performs role of my psychotherapist 
according to morals of butterflies. 

Scraping political posters off walls 
of cathedrals and museums with fear, 
Sirius searches forest of glass oaks 
for quaint cottage where Eurydice dwells 
to tend garden of the singing scorpion 
despite how fast the clock of her heart ticks. 

Building tables, dressers, and writing desks 
that shimmer brightly in gray morning fog, 
Sirius tells the singing scorpion 
tragic tales blind ballerinas perform 
though bombs blast theater of the absurd 
into fragments of mirrors without eyes. 

Raspberries glisten with red dew of dawn 
where the hypnotized robot princess walks 
each morning in apple groves of weird fate 
to feed the singing scorpion of faith 
dream words she scrapes from television screens 
because time blurs into false memories. 

No baffling system of the government 
will stop the complicated game of wealth 
that Sirius plays with cheat code of faith 
invented by the singing scorpion 
who asks Eurydice if she would like 
to rule the world as princess of the tree. 

These lies we tell in tangled verse of pride 
unravel with each truth we hide in eggs 
refracting light rays of the cosmic wraith 
in psychic bond that nurtures our respect 
though we keep winding clock of charity 
still controlled by the singing scorpion.