First Imaginary Friend

First Imaginary Friend
© Surazeus
2025 07 22

The whispers of the stopped clock call my name 
so I become dark shadow of the wind 
to find my first imaginary friend 
but she refuses to erase my fame, 
so I slip through cracks of forgetful faith 
to envelop Earth as the star-eyed wraith. 

The voices of the dead wake me from dream 
so I invent the dessert you call cake 
to expose cruel deceivers with the fake 
which leaves me free to play along the stream 
where people row their boats to paradise 
which only accepts people who are nice. 

I live my whole life on the edge of hope, 
performing under microscopic gaze 
of brave saviors drugged in religious haze 
who teach evening classes on how to cope 
with collapse of civilization, though 
everyone wants to get on with the show. 

Each evening I surrender to my fate 
to play great hero who must save the world, 
struck by lightning to become cosmic herald 
commissioned to guard the heavenly gate 
from evil monsters of the human heart 
who deviate from moral rules of the chart. 

Assuming authority of starlight, 
so my body glows with transcendent words, 
I translate holy scripture of fruit birds 
as they evolve from dinosaurs in flight, 
once giant devils hunting us with claws 
till we develop grand religious cause. 

As influential leader of the crowd, 
I am the fearless change-agent of truth 
reborn each cycle as messiah sleuth 
to manage projects that will make God proud 
by building work cultures from the ground up 
based on mystic wisdom of the quest cup. 

Yet constellated ghost of my twin soul 
walks out the door into the grove of trees 
to realign the Earth by strict degrees 
which calculates new academic goal 
for which we measure distance beyond death 
through soft extension of the holy breath. 

Before the world is destroyed by the bomb 
we shall meet at the Pemaquid Point Light 
where Cetus and Andromeda still meet 
for tea and crumpets at the empty tomb 
where skull of Perseus, geared into the clock, 
analyzes trends of conceptual stock.