Glass Doors Of Success

Glass Doors Of Success
© Surazeus
2025 11 03

Marilyn stands beside the broken sign 
and ponders why she feels inadequate 
to analyze complex state of affairs 
entangling human hearts in fantasy 
of perfect paradise we dream is real, 
then crosses the street when the light turns green. 

Ten thousand airplanes scream across the sky, 
bearing wingless angels to paradise 
instead of dropping bombs on palaces 
where pompous kings cling to false divine right 
as their empires dissolve to words of trust 
scrawled on documents in museum cases. 

With fingers graceful as ballet-lithe girls 
Marilyn enters numbers in spreadsheets 
to analyze trends of profit and loss 
displayed as charts that measure social worth, 
compiled from stream of data into psalms 
that angels sing in cathedral of ghosts. 

Ten horses gallop in the dew-wet field 
beside the highway full of speeding cars 
driven by angels lost in paradise 
who chase quick butterfly of happiness 
beyond the far horizon of desire 
where Sibyl prophesies how empires fall. 

Marilyn eats turkey sandwich on rye 
at small round table in the mall food court 
where people shop for utensils and clothes 
stuck on endless merry-go-round of wealth, 
then rides elevator to the nineth floor 
where she strides past the glass doors of success. 

When Superman completes mission from God 
to stop aggressive warplanes of the king 
from bombing villages in Scythia, 
he flies to city by the shining sea 
and floats by window of accounting firm 
where Marilyn waves and blows him a kiss. 

Riding the bus home in dark evening rain, 
Marilyn ponders the meaning of life 
that unwinds random journey of her fate 
based on decisions she makes without thought, 
then opens front door of her mortgaged home 
where Superman watches golf on the couch. 

Marilyn takes photos with her eye-phone 
of her daughter Wednesday in black lace dress 
who goes trick or treat on Halloween night, 
till pumpkin transforms to Carriage of Hope, 
which they ride with sweet Emily and Death, 
pulled by swift horses of Eternity.