Castle Door Of Power

Castle Door Of Power
© Surazeus
2025 09 22

When the young woman with lightbulbs for eyes 
begins to scrape her shadow off the wall, 
the farmer, hiding the mirror of time 
in his pocket, along with the glass moon, 
asks the innocent cow why people laugh 
though we become roses after we die. 

Let us consider the black albatross 
that perches on the shoulder of blind Thor 
who transforms happy children into moths 
despite how long the pink telephone screams 
at angels who torment government clerks 
with thoughts of beauty for the penniless. 

The woman decides not to fight the tree 
and walks away instead beyond the sky 
to harvest ginseng from the mountain slope 
where the man disguised as the sullen horse 
throws walnuts at her red car on the bridge 
till she folds his mask in her leather purse. 

Since I am interested in your mind, 
that pulses bright as purple mushroom brain, 
I design our parallel universe 
to mirror graceful body of the nymph 
who sews clothes for the lonely gatherers 
embarrassed by the need to fall in love. 

Born right near the cusp of Virgo and Libra, 
I worship Justice holding Scales of Truth 
who teaches humans to confirm our soul 
with self-control in framework of the law 
so effects from cause of our actions charge 
constructive progress of organic growth. 

The woman wearing wings of tattered novels 
encloses her soul in the rolling stone 
that gleams beneath the throne of splintered oak 
before she opens twenty thousand doors 
to find typewriter of the weeping clown 
so she can drink delicious can of oil. 

Ophelia watches romantic show 
on television forged from raven beaks 
so she can learn the secret key of fate 
we use to open castle door of power 
before rain falling on black city streets 
transforms her soul back into the Mermaid. 

If the young woman with lightbulbs for eyes 
attempts to play piano in red snow, 
Apollo may remember where we live 
and bring basket of persimmons to show 
he understands assignment of the hour 
to build world empire of Zarathia.