Vanishing Of Bitter Fate

Vanishing Of Bitter Fate
© Surazeus
2025 09 20

Your many voices chattering in sunlight 
radiate from countless television screens 
in waves of hope across the city maze 
where gleaming cars stream past buildings of brick 
through endless vanishing of bitter faith 
that leaves us lonely on the river shore. 

If I use love to build my mortal house 
out on the endless prairie of sad wind, 
despite my vain search for the Promised Land, 
I might almost escape hunger of hope 
to hide my plangent heart in grave of time 
from which will bloom the primal Tree of Life. 

The forlorn whippoorwill in cloistered woods 
discusses humble passion of the seer 
who leads grim-eager Pilgrims down through Hell 
before their bodies dissolve into dust 
through uncanny affection for the sky 
where water waits to fertilize the world. 

We fear most what we sense in our dark hearts 
so we should measure rainfall before dawn 
in solemn preparation for our death 
since we must improvise our social role 
with outrageous respect for humble souls 
who dare defy the tyrant in his tower. 

With Key of Wisdom burning in my hand 
I disassemble puzzle forged by fate, 
exposing greed of cruel ambitious men 
who attempt to reframe the narrative 
so they are always right in game of power 
till they exhaust their rage with bitter hate. 

When I meet the oxcart man on the road 
that winds around the mountain of mad ghosts 
he asks if I would like to buy his cart 
which he constructed from dinosaur bones 
so I steal tattered wings of Icarus 
and dance around the fire with shaman chants. 

When I transform into the Spotted Owl 
I flutter wings of laughter in moonlight 
and soar on the road my ancestors blazed 
ten thousand years Scythia to Oregon 
where I translate the ancient song of waves 
to verses humans fail to understand. 

When I arrive at the End of the World 
I stand beneath the Tower of Hercules 
to strum the ancient Lyre of Mercury 
and sing about fall of America 
from which we build world empire based on truth 
long after vanishing of bitter fate.