Obelisk Of Infinite Eyes

Obelisk Of Infinite Eyes
© Surazeus
2025 08 30

Lost in obelisk of infinite eyes, 
body twisted in spiral galaxies, 
Orpheus asks the old woman with eyes 
gleaming bright in open book of her hands 
where he can find the Garden of Delights, 
but she gives him the flute she carved from bone. 

Headlights of passing cars gleam on the house 
where no one has lived for two thousand years 
so often beams of energy transform 
from darkness into shadow of the girl 
who wears the clean white lace communion dress 
so Orpheus stops and steps from the car. 

Skipping around him in the midnight rain 
while chanting Lucy in the sky with diamonds, 
the young girl tosses silver butterflies 
that flock around him on hurricane wings, 
so he unlocks door of the empty house 
and walks down infinite hallways of time. 

Each door Orpheus passes opens wide 
as portal to another mirror world 
that all branch off from the only real world 
to glow as concepts of what could have been, 
then fade away in gloom of yesterday 
since each choice we assert creates tomorrow. 

While he plays haunting melodies at night 
on bone flute carved by Tethys in the cave, 
Orpheus ponders why all conscious souls 
that animate fragile bodies of flesh 
will vanish in the nothingness of death, 
but finds no answer in the silent dawn. 

Ten thousand ghosts, who keep following him 
as he plays eerie tunes on the bone flute, 
dissipate when rays of dawn unveil fear 
and recreate the teeming world of forms 
composed of atoms swerving in the void 
while he watches people fish on the beach. 

When Orion finds on the ocean shore 
tall black obelisk of infinite eyes, 
he asks his blind mother Ophelia 
if she remembers where the old road goes, 
but she sails away on the wind-winged ship, 
so he carves idol of Ozymandias. 

Returning home in hills of Arkansas, 
Orpheus drives long winding country road 
through ancient forest of the smiling ghost 
to rickety cabin by the stony brook 
where Ophelia bakes sweet apple pie 
beside obelisk of infinite eyes.