Dark Animal Of Fear

Dark Animal Of Fear
© Surazeus
2025 11 09

Dark animal of fear stalks empty homes 
wracked by incessant winds of hungry hope, 
so I read stories backward from the end 
to calculate how far we have to fall 
as institutions of our empire state 
collapse in anguish of religious faith. 

Taking advantage of my second chance, 
I escape to sacred country of Death 
where trembling wren of my heart sings of hope 
that faceless ghosts breathing celestial light 
blaze new roads for the still-living to follow 
so we can manage madness of the heart. 

I find my house at the end of the world 
after walking ten times around the globe, 
but, just as roots of brave stability 
curl down in heart of darkness with strong faith, 
tides of history change and sweep me away 
so I start again where my wrecked ship lands. 

Secret face that all my ancestors wore 
is only revealed by weird photograph 
that no one ever sees framed on the wall 
in museum of insurance where gods 
assemble to discuss dire fates of men 
who dare defy their power to decide. 

My eyes are open in the nothingness 
where light is forged from tense divinity 
connecting atoms through eternity 
based on strict copyright of cultured fame 
so I see images of naked minds 
struggling to be born from infectious muck. 

Safe in library hall of singing books, 
I modulate regressive miracles 
mapping matrix ghosts of maternal love 
through moral network of religious codes 
contrived by charlatans who sell blind hope 
so I can understand why all souls die. 

Promotion proffered by surprised roulette, 
revised by router sampling manic thoughts, 
reveals my secret passion to construct 
glider of Icarus from raven bones 
because I want to fly above the world 
and map the ever-shifting maze of faith. 

Dark animal of fear embodies god 
whom humans of each xenophobic tribe 
worship with obsessive discography 
by singing hymns in building by the sea 
where efficient workers emulate fool 
who sacrifices himself to kill the beast.