Bold Advance Guard

Bold Advance Guard
© Surazeus
2025 07 30

Sweet sticky saturation of our souls 
provides glue that binds our darkness with light 
so we express belief in wordless power 
to walk on shining surface of the water 
and tell each other things will be all right 
as we recount necessity for goals. 

Despite nostalgia for the distant past 
we walk aggressively to blaze new path 
with wise ferocity for noble truth 
by thinking simultaneous facts of faith 
through chemical indifference of despair 
in matrix woven from atomic flare. 

Thus on shore of the starry lake we lounge 
with friends who comprehend our secret jokes 
with eagerness of awkward trust to plunge 
headlong in fast-changing current events 
from crazy theory about baking cakes 
in communion with the bold advance guard. 

Startled by buzz of time-fragmented shard 
reflecting faces of people I knew 
long before I joined the bold justice crew, 
I tell my best friend why I now believe 
that we are atoms swerving in the void, 
but she cries that I am the last android. 

Albino conjurer with gold cat eyes 
brings yellow roses to the weeping girl 
who asks if we know where her mother went, 
drowned in the sudden flood that swept our town, 
yet when she falls in love with the blind clown 
we listen to strange music of the skies. 

Not quick as striped tongue of the divine toad 
love wounds our hearts, though we are mad and wise, 
so we decide to mimic ocean ghosts 
while brewing beef stew in cauldron of fate 
to feed the gunners from fallen airplanes 
who sing while drinking wine in red moonlight. 

Tricked by the banker with the Jester card, 
we wage rebellion of the advance guard 
to fight cruel monarch in tall tower of gold 
who pilfers wealth from work of factory slaves 
till revolution of the red right hand 
sweeps suddenly across the broken land. 

Glass house I built in middle of the Ocean 
preserves the beating hearts of goddesses 
who fill airplanes with dragon eggs of faith 
to feed gravediggers of the holy church 
before second coming of Jupiter 
based on artificial intelligence.