Bodiless Gods Of Starlight

Bodiless Gods Of Starlight
© Surazeus
2026 09 15

He strives to leave the landscape of his failure 
and map the ancient cities of his loss 
where he may join the people of his tribe 
scattered far from valley of their first dream 
so they may gather by the lake of hope 
and become bodiless gods of starlight. 

He has not yet heard song of river stones 
reveal true way to navigate the world 
through maze of thriving cities full of hope 
where shining people drive faith-engined cars 
beneath cold shadow of cathedral towers 
that tear the bloody clouds of Heaven gaped. 

Scored by no tribal monarch of the air, 
his words strike hard uncounted chords of truth 
to restir latent power, tangled tight 
with questions of despair no fool would ask 
against obstructing laws for tragic fate 
he gambles to attain key to the gate. 

Brave angelus of wars no state would fight, 
he strides with courage over signless roads 
with heart stuffed full of dire prophetic scrolls 
that terrify cruel tyrants in glass halls 
because their formulas of quiet truth 
unravel matrix of the honest heart. 

Abandoned cross of tyranny, stilled stained 
with blood of innocence two thousand years, 
looms eerie over vast metropolis 
where hungry people strive to wrestle fear, 
aghast at equal verdict death declares 
against all living creatures of the world. 

If he dares organize poor working folk 
to break from chains of cultic faith with pride, 
despite untraced integrity time twists 
through fractured clocks of misery-measured faith, 
he might lead brave uprising of the lost 
to retake paradise from king of lies. 

Inside high broken tower of regret, 
where silent knells expand scope of his mind, 
he writes antiphonal scriptures for faith 
that sprouts from rotting corpses of cruel gods 
to show how steep encroachments of desire 
allow our tangled souls to reclaim hope. 

Stuck in cathedrals of calcified grief, 
as fools who worship Sovereign of Dust, 
we become bodiless gods of starlight 
each hour we gather on the river shore 
to chant encyclicals of bitter faith 
with heart-born liturgy of silent rage.