Fabulous Treasure Of Faith

Fabulous Treasure Of Faith
© Surazeus
2025 09 16

I read the book that never could exist 
while stuck in dreary store of creeping fog 
that dares my heart to honor obscure sage 
who lurks in hollow church of loneliness 
with confusing script of the tragic play 
about the nameless king no one remembers. 

Awake on eve of my great journey home, 
I steal the fabulous treasure of faith 
concealed inside exotic book of lies 
with strange letters impossible to read 
because they conceal true image of God 
that proves my cherished beliefs are illusions. 

Proficient in the art of painting ghosts 
that hide in uncarved blocks of marble hope, 
I vow to exonerate the mad king 
who never admits what he does is wrong 
while slouching in dark corner of dire fate 
despite the entertaining schemes of jesters. 

My mother rushes to the edge of town 
to claim inheritance from the blind clown 
who tries to move great mountain of lost faith 
with seismic laughter of the two-faced wraith 
because my father slams his fist in rage 
that she dares to enter the beauty pageant. 

Through blooming jasmine of the shadowed past 
she walks with brisk assertion of despair 
toward grotto veiled with tangled skeins of thought 
where timeless now of everywhere glows clear 
with evanescent passion of true love, 
though stolen fruit of fate has become rotten. 

She decides to not fall into the sea 
because she understands the sound of blue 
that echoes deep in nothingness of time 
by changing special paradigm of trust 
which traps our bodies in the Nevermore 
mapped by the voyager who knows his demon. 

Chained by concept of unreality, 
unreferenced by complex feelings denied, 
she programs system of new precedence 
concealing weird illusions of fake words 
to translate sacred wisdom of dark birds 
to fractured language used by the Decider. 

Partaking of the midnight eucharist 
described in tabloids of prurient faith, 
Minerva chooses to aver weird truth 
staged as symbolic gestures angels trade, 
so I read the book that may not exist 
except in dream library up in Heaven.