Eyeless Man Of Fate

Eyeless Man Of Fate
© Surazeus
2025 09 16

The young woman with flowers in her hair 
searches for her heart that lurks in the sand, 
but the blue horse galloping on the hill 
lures her away to forest of the owl 
whose eyes refract starlight into her mind 
so she can see the eyeless man of fate. 

Waiting in the apple tree by the lake 
where lonely people walk the signless road, 
Zarath plucks untuned strings of the spruce lyre 
to call the eyeless man from the glass sky, 
but he wanders crowded streets of vast cities, 
giving loaves of bread to the hungry folk. 

Alone by face pool in the moonless vale, 
Zarath gathers puzzle pieces of fate 
scattered by large hand of the eyeless man 
who announces code of the mirror eye 
so she can place them in her book of tales 
arranged according to their tragic ends. 

When she arrives at the old apple tree 
where the eyeless man has waited all day, 
she kisses him with joy of selfless love, 
then takes him sailing in boat of her heart 
that glides on endless sea of everywhere 
while they calculate weird progress of fate. 

Angry that Zarath blocks his plans to steal 
land from poor people to make himself rich, 
the Jealous Jester finds her in the crowd, 
who worship Ishtar in Temple of Skulls, 
and tries to stab with his bitter blade, 
but the eyeless man shields her with his heart. 

Stabbed in the heart by the arrogant king, 
the eyeless man of fate lies on his back, 
while Zarath cradles him with loving arms, 
and tries to tell her Secret of the Name, 
but all his words dissolve into mute blood 
that stains her hands as she weeps in despair. 

After wandering the Earth ten thousand years, 
Zarath arrives at the great lake of star eyes, 
where she was born from river stone of truth, 
and sets skull of the eyeless man on hearth 
where he chants prophecies to all who ask 
in return for butterfly wings of love. 

She hides in Garden of Zarathium 
with her children, sired by the eyeless man, 
who build angel-winged airplanes with bold hands 
based on blueprints that Icarus designed, 
then flies above metropolitan maze 
to find the Owl of Wisdom in her heart.