Belili Writes My Name

Belili Writes My Name
© Surazeus
2025 07 14

The casual way he talks about the sea 
confuses horses of posterity 
with valiant monuments to memories 
that crumble into sand with turn of time 
which shall erase all names of humankind 
for we are broken statues of the mind. 

With hungry hearts of anguish for the truth 
we march with laurel branches and death spears 
to escort with wild cheers of angry hope 
the banker and the fishwife in gold carriage 
knee-deep on muddy roads in pouring rain 
back to the Bastille and its bloody flags. 

When frightful demon of the cursed abyss, 
disguised as star-eyed cardinal of faith, 
reveals the entrance to the Underworld, 
I strum my lyre to play ethereal tunes 
and tread the fragile bridge of groaning bones 
to find soul of the woman I love most. 

I kneel before Belili on her throne 
and offer basket of plums from my heart, 
so she accepts with beaming moon-bright smile 
and eats my heart with serpent teeth of love 
that makes me writhe with ecstasy of faith 
till my brain explodes with the lightning flash. 

Stuck now in portal of the fractured world, 
I feel my body pulse with eager lust 
to generate new body for my soul 
so I can walk the world of hills and lakes 
four hundred million years of bitter strife 
to transcend my weakness with loyal love. 

Since death is opposite of leaving you 
I curl my spirit in your aching heart 
which drives your passion to live for each hour 
as we walk far around the spinning Earth 
one million times to find the Promised Land 
that has always existed in my mind. 

Belili gives me book of writhing ghosts 
and asks me to give each new-designed soul 
the secret name that keys their fate in life 
so they can make the mask they want to wear 
based on how ancestral memories guide 
each choice they make that results in rebirth. 

Belili writes my name with sizzling blood 
on stone walls of cathedrals in the sea 
to conjure demon of my heart from Hell 
so I have power of the honest sword 
to cast the tyrant from the throne of truth 
so she can reign again as Queen of Earth.