Jester Of The Greedy King

Jester Of The Greedy King
© Surazeus
2025 09 01

Beneath soft laughter of the maple tree 
we try to discover meaning of life 
encased in fragile stones of river beds 
disguised as Grecian statues of the mind, 
so we hide honesty in gloom of faith 
with impossible light of time-bound hearts. 

Though our brains are full of arrogant gods 
that mirror those trapped in conceptual stars, 
we walk together in the maze of myths 
with project to dismantle attitudes 
that fool some fearful people to believe 
they are much better than the rest of us. 

Though honesty of the writer is praised 
yet they freeze in cold house of poverty 
when snow suffocates the world in despair 
as they write bitter truth about the world 
with the swan-feather quill on fragile page 
that would keep them warm burned in the stone hearth. 

My brain orbits the Earth faster than light 
that splits metallic symbol of my heart 
with subtle reference to the puzzling code 
which penetrates obscure frame of the weird, 
inscrutable hex designed by the ghost 
to misdirect attention of the sleuth. 

The father kneels before the weeping child 
with calm compassion of the basilisk, 
inspired by jester of the greedy king 
to teach him prayer that soothes the frantic heart, 
but he hears no one ever answer back 
despite his fervent obsession with faith. 

Lost-distance search of the desperate devil 
shrinks long unspooling road of botched abuse 
with stark compression unraveling truth 
through sacred bloodline of the holy grail 
from which I drink communion wine of rage 
with lavish promise of the howling owl. 

Uncanny promise of enduring faith 
compressed at core of music by despair 
reveals happy ending of fairytales 
despised by children of the bloody moon 
who throw gold balls at engine of the car 
that hangs upside down from the Tree of Lies. 

Through dull condition of the afterlife 
we lounge without concern of refugees 
in deserted palace of the mad king 
who burns the holy books of bitter gods 
while drinking communion wine at eclipse 
that erases our bodies from the world.