Golden Road Of Success

Golden Road Of Success
© Surazeus
2025 08 10

Lost in mind-bending illusion of time, 
preserved in television show of fate, 
Gotenus runs across the muddy field 
to catch rainbow of perspicacity, 
shocked awake with discernment from despair 
at the crumbling of his castle into sand. 

Eager to learn flight from ravens of faith, 
explained by snow flakes on the fractured screen, 
Gotenus stops running by the highway 
to stare at shadows streaking swiftly past 
till his eyes, searching for horses, see cars, 
glass coffins floating on four wheels of fate. 

Astray far from golden road of success, 
disoriented in maze of locked doors, 
Gotenus searches among roots of trees 
for sacred book he buried in his heart 
which he plans to trade for the Holy Grail 
that tumbles down stairs of the falling tower. 

Ardent with fierce faith forged from suffering, 
amazed at wisdom in song of the toad, 
Gotenus preaches salvation by faith 
in hollow horror of the empty church 
while faceless ghosts sing sacred hymns of hope 
for second coming of the long-dead king. 

Zealous for aesthetic beauty of truth, 
consumed by hunger of capital gains, 
Gotenus calculates through numbers gain 
return on investment from measurement 
defining secret passion of the heart 
while lovers replicate digital assets. 

Anxious from strict efficiency of death, 
bewildered at the birth of divine souls, 
Gotenus stands at locked door of the tower 
and calls name of Rapunzel with bold voice, 
but Radigund, her daughter with Adonis, 
appears at the window of fate instead. 

Impatient for their wedding to begin, 
invested in weird worship of the mind, 
Gotenus stands before his princess bride 
and gives her Wand of Ishtar with respect 
so she wields global political power 
to manage United Nations of Earth. 

Fallen from Heaven on torn angel wings, 
tricked by the Serpent Witch of Honesty, 
Gotenus wanders gloomy halls of time 
in many-roomed mansion of privilege, 
calling for Radigund with anguished voice 
who died in childbirth forty years before.