I Want To Believe

I Want To Believe
© Surazeus
2026 05 26

False as devils wearing bright angel masks 
are those who willfully misunderstand 
specific statements that assert clear points 
contrary to selfish motives through greed 
their tangled words conceal in trite bromides 
that dislocate perverted attributes. 

While I keep my head in the stars of dream 
I bind my body to the ground of truth 
when I investigate uncanny tales 
of alien beings from planets far away 
who buzz our globe in saucers of star gems 
to document the hoax of dreamless facts. 

When the Men in Black appear in my house, 
beaming down from starship in the sky, 
they spread angelic wings of glowing silk 
to gaze deep in my mind with crystal eyes 
that project visions of the universe 
so I see spiral coil of cosmic truth. 

Ten thousand orbs of light flash in the sky 
over ten thousand towns across the land 
so journalists in cars speed lone highways 
to chase gray aliens across desert plains 
to end of the rainbow where ghosts of fear 
vanish in sudden gust of wordless wind. 

I want to believe, the agent declares, 
while gathering evidence of aliens, 
and photographs god in the flying machine 
who arrives with wisdom of ancient souls 
to usher in New Age of Peace on Earth 
so all social conflicts evaporate. 

Call them angels or devils in spaceships, 
the crazy man in the tinfoil hat shouts, 
but they are ancient demons from the stars 
who rise up from the surging sea of fear 
as Godzilla who rules Earth with despair, 
while waving blurry photographs of planes. 

Wide-eyed Icarus on the Silver Bridge 
spreads white wings wide against storm-blasting wind 
and howls with hope in grim Plutonian night 
as millions of people gaze in his eyes 
that hypnotize their minds with secret truth 
so they call for aliens to save our world. 

When storm clouds part at blazing flash of dawn, 
Jesus beams down from Starship Enterprise 
and walks among all nations on our globe 
who proclaim him Emperor of the Earth, 
so I turn off that television show 
and sit on my front porch to play guitar.