Earth Will Never End

Earth Will Never End
© Surazeus
2025 10 11

Apocalyptic glow of evening light 
when the sun glares at me through quiet trees 
reveals to me that Earth will never end 
for globe of bubbling chemicals will spin 
billions of years more in the starry void 
so I never have to tell you my love. 

Four horsemen gallop on the windy plain 
with scales and swords of legal punishment 
when they attack traitors on thrones of power 
to drive dictators from towers of fear 
which frees the people from cruel tyranny 
so we can tell each other of our love. 

Lost in endless maze of bureaucracy, 
forever filling out official forms 
which grim-faced clerks declare are incorrect, 
we wander homeless in dark city streets 
to gather under bridges where trolls lurk 
intending to sell illusions of love. 

Smoking cigarettes in seedy cafe 
beside abandoned radio factory, 
Mercury ponders the meaning of life, 
then tries to call the pretty castle spy 
who never answers office telephone 
with secret information about fate 
wizards need to construct engines of love. 

Though I rarely hope for justice to reign 
while trudging toward final home of my grave, 
I surf the tidal wave of social change 
that sweeps nationalists and racists away 
and cleanses fertile meadows of the world 
for the rest of us to tend gardens of love. 

Because it is the journey that counts more 
than our arrival at the Promised Land 
I keep on walking past the pearly gates 
to map graceful curves of bright river streams 
where villagers gather in ring of stones 
to celebrate marriages of true love. 

Small cat who sleeps on shelf of well-read books 
beneath clear window of the shining world 
transforms into Griffin with ruby eyes 
who soars above the endless maze of myths 
to photograph every city on Earth 
as holy satellite of divine love. 

When demons Zepar and Naberius 
lead Christian soldiers into holy war 
to fight crusade against wise Lucifer, 
I walk ten thousand miles to sea of eyes 
where maple leaves fall in the morning fog 
from which emerges brave princess of love.