Holy Ziggurat Of Ur

Holy Ziggurat Of Ur
© Surazeus
2025 11 15

Halfway through long life of our universe, 
I lounge on planet of my beating heart 
and contemplate how anxious sense of fear 
motivates me to manipulate thought 
with gentle gestures of my crafting hands 
to conjure virtual model of the world. 

I watch how organic creatures of light 
sprout glowing from pungent soil of this globe 
in temporary flames of conscious thought 
to dance with passion of reluctant flight 
through timeless song of beautiful delight 
then flicker out and dissolve into night. 

Our bodies formed from flares of chemicals 
spiral wildly fierce from heart of the Earth, 
constrained by bonds of energetic faith 
when lovers embrace with intense desire 
to generate new life before we die 
in bodies that transform from fish to god. 

Awake with timeless awe for changing growth, 
I remember four hundred million years 
swimming in the sea, wriggling up the stream, 
crawling on the shore, climbing up the tree, 
running along the river, leaping high 
with eager passion of the fool to fly. 

I feel my body change with each new life, 
fish to lizard to mouse to cat to ape 
to monkey to human to wingless angel 
who flies airplane in clouds above the world, 
then stands brave on stage in religious hall 
and sings hymns about our human adventure. 

Strange spark of psychic energy glows 
deep in bottomless abyss of my heart 
which I translate to harmonious hum 
to sing through melody of fine-tuned verse 
conceptual vision of our universe 
that provides framework for creative roles. 

Then sings my soul to Ishtar Queen of Love 
who stands on holy ziggurat of Ur 
and teaches us to consider grand works 
of fertile worlds the universe displays 
where conscious creatures sing praise to the light 
that glows from atoms swerving in the void. 

When through lush forest glades of beaming Earth 
I wander with you ever by my side, 
on lofty mountains where streams sparkle clear, 
I feel eternal beauty of all souls 
refract through diamond-mirror of your eyes 
as we two strangers generate new life.