Church On The Seventh Day

Church On The Seventh Day
© Surazeus
2025 09 07

On the seventh day till the end of time 
the woman in the window calls my name, 
so I walk alone down the signless road 
to find glass church of the hypnotic toad 
who preaches salvation of dreamless trance 
since nobody deserves a second chance. 

Young woman in her cozy living room 
cuddles her large furry cat of bright gloom 
while smiling at the ghost of everywhere 
who stands on his head on the fragile chair 
till she asks him why people suffer pain 
so he runs out and laughs in the wild rain. 

Dressed in pink gown that flutters in the wind, 
she smirks at the man with computer mind 
who calculates how frail butterflies fly 
since she weeps silently at his cruel lie, 
but then she saunters on the river shore 
to paint magic sigils on every door. 

Amused at how people with fractured eyes 
pray for eternal life in golden skies, 
Ophelia explains with logical code 
that every conscious creature in the world 
will die and vanish into gleaming light, 
fizzled with enormous clockwork of fate. 

Untroubled by the loneliness of truth 
which she formulates with psychotic math, 
young woman, wearing pink gown sewn from wings 
of angels trapped in spiral clock of rings, 
describes strange beauty of this world we love 
to war refugees gathered in the cave. 

While eating apples stolen from the Tree 
that Adam planted by the oil-slicked sea, 
war refugees share photographs of homes 
before they were blasted by holy bombs, 
then conspire to overthrow the mad king 
who stole their memories to which they cling. 

Clutching soft sand with insensitive rage, 
gentle girl in pink dress on empty stage 
splits rays of light in curling threads of hope 
that weave our brains with lies that help us cope 
with naked truth that every soul will die, 
euphemized through proverbs of Adonai. 

Baking loaves of bread in the grocery store, 
Ophelia ponders secret of the core 
that spins at center of our pear-shaped globe 
mapped by laser beams of the psychic probe 
which records weird wishes that people pray 
when they attend church on the seventh day.