Nerthus Calls My Name

Nerthus Calls My Name
© Surazeus
2025 12 19

Extra beautiful with eyes of star ghosts, 
yet angry at disrespect of the wind, 
Nerthus rides noon bus to the coffee shop 
where she serves drinks to writers with laptops 
till the moon bleeds rain down the window pane, 
so she turns into the crow without wings. 

Eager to map graceful curves of both coasts, 
yet bored with email no one wants to send, 
Nerthus wears clothes magazines say are hip 
while watching flashing lights of lost starships 
that land on her lawn where no god has gone, 
then gets up on stage at the Globe and sings. 

Ridiculous how road of life we take 
leaves our souls stranded in random events, 
Nerthus declares to the man in the moon 
who gives her wings he swiped from Icarus 
who falls from the sky while pondering why 
our bodies dissolve into wordless dust. 

Resistant to proof that life must be fake, 
yet annoyed people demand she be real, 
Nerthus learns to play American tune 
that fools everyone stuck on the state bus 
to work hard for wealth at cost of our health 
since we float in lake of atomic lust. 

Arrogant with self-conscious mind of God, 
yet humble as the ballerina queen, 
Nerthus researches weird religious cure 
that banishes cancer from aching hearts 
by casting dream spells she draws from snake wells, 
then runs for mayor of her seaside town. 

Admonished for joining the Justice Squad, 
despite being last daughter of Melusine, 
Nerthus teaches her children to endure 
as the Nordic race that follows star charts 
to worship oak tree with the Runic Key 
till our nation is hijacked by the clown. 

Burdened with mission to rescue the world 
from tyranny of work-exploitive kings, 
Nerthus lifts high Lamp of Diogenes 
and leads our revolution against greed 
till we all get stuck in the Church of Luck 
founded on state theology of hate. 

Bedeviled by faith of the cosmic herald 
recorded with glass Astarian Rings, 
Nerthus calls my name Mephistopheles 
to learn what her son Tiresias needs 
who becomes the girl with the eyes of pearl 
in our journey across waste land of fate.