Righteous Way To Go

Righteous Way To Go
© Surazeus
2026 05 13

Stuck on the righteous way to go to Heaven 
that winds through every city in the world, 
I study statues of Satan and Hamlet 
to understand romantic state of mind 
that could fuel engine of my beating heart 
when I want to leap from Tower of Hope. 

Lying stunned on the righteous way to go 
after I fall from Heaven for nine days, 
I wake alone in Valley of Despond 
with tattered wings of Icarus I stole 
to find my crash created my own space 
where I can sing solemn psalms of despair. 

Lost on the righteous way to go back home 
where ghosts of my parents forget my name, 
I cast my bread upon waters of faith 
but the birds with angelic wings of light 
die from sorrow of poisoned promises 
and I get nothing but handfuls of rain. 

Mapping the righteous way to go to Hell 
where Hamlet and Orpheus share bad jokes, 
I design new ontology of truth 
to conjure virtual model of the Earth 
that represents the way things really are 
instead of how Plato thinks they should be. 

Eager to name the righteous way to go 
that leads to paradise of apple trees, 
I plant seeds in the wilderness of pain 
that sprout into Seraphim of my heart 
who stand guard on the marble walls of Troy 
where Cassandra waits for me to come home. 

Still waiting on the righteous way to go 
through airport security with my passport, 
I think about my bride Persephone 
who meets Mona Lisa and Melusine 
to paint statues at the Vigeland Park 
beneath tall monolith of writhing ghosts. 

Racing time on the righteous way to go 
with the Third Man on cold Antarctic plains, 
I find Hammer of Thor stuck in the ice, 
so I proclaim myself King of Greenland, 
and dare mad Nebuchadnezzar to fight me 
whose statue of gold falls in the waste land. 

Abandoning the righteous way to go 
where Percival lies drowned on the sea shore, 
I ask wise Urania to marry me, 
but she is in love with Prometheus 
who operates power plant near Lake Tahoe 
that leaves thousands of people in the dark.