Drink Honey Of Madness

Drink Honey Of Madness
© Surazeus
2025 11 02

While picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, 
where ghosts of people killed in ancient wars 
sing heart-wrenching hymns to their vampire god, 
I hear their voices echo from dead trees, 
so I listen to necessary tales 
reveal road of destiny I should choose. 

Uprooted ghosts of lost forgotten towns 
crowd in my backyard when moon glitters gold, 
so I transcribe love letters they dictate 
which flutter frail butterfly wings of hope 
to swarm around the lightning-crippled tree 
where children burn their costumes at midnight. 

Sequestered in garden of azaleas 
that shimmer pink as sorrow girls conceal, 
I drink honey of madness brewed by bees 
that alters whole perspective of my brain 
so I see angel fluttering in the sky 
who gives me crystal sphere of prophecy. 

Sniffing lethal scent of azaleas, 
I feel nostalgia for my long-lost home 
infect my heart with noxious lust for truth, 
so I walk east on ten-thousand-mile road 
to find in misty woods of Avalon 
first home my mother built from angel bones. 

Light glows behind lace curtains of sad ache 
in purple dusk that lingers over hills 
carved by the narrow stream of earnest faith 
that flows by lawn of home my mother built 
where she cooks cornbread, beans, and apple pies 
in the same routine for ten thousand years. 

Abstract concepts encased in primal words 
expose aggressive angst of ardent faith 
that chains our bodies to this hour-taut space 
through ceaseless cycles of incarnate thoughts 
that fear forges into alarming keys 
for adventurous fools to explore Earth. 

Taproot of my vengeful heart expands deep 
to grasp unblinking eye at psychic core 
in iron battery of immense concern 
which powers electrochemical surge 
transforming atoms to organic beings 
who seek companion to create new life. 

We find each other on the signless road 
that leads through every city in the world 
where we build homes on every river shore 
so children of our brains conceive new goals 
to conquer Heaven with armies of Earth 
by drinking honey of madness gods brew.