Crazy Angel Of Despair

Crazy Angel Of Despair
© Surazeus
2026 10 11

The wise leader gives his all for the people, 
focusing attention of his compassion 
to design complex economic programs 
that nurture craft skills of the talented 
so every person performs their small part 
maintaining the food-production machine. 

Pulling cart with crates of apples and books, 
I walk the dusty Massachusetts road 
to find one-door house in shadowy woods 
where the wizard of words and his blind cat 
ponder the meaning of our universe 
that shimmers with the holy light of stars. 

Attempting to adjust steps of my quest, 
I steer myself away from holy light 
to gather firewood in the misty woods 
so the old man in the huge one-door house 
may boil tomato soup with ginger roots 
to warm our bodies on cold winter nights. 

While gliding camouflaged among oak trees 
to snatch one milk cow from enormous herd, 
I stop when billowing shadow of greed 
rises up from Earth with demonic wings, 
so I hide from soul-searing eyes of Geryon 
who roars at Heracles in lion-fur cape. 

After I run back to the one-door house, 
I play wild heart-enchanting melodies 
on glass piano by the gleaming pond 
where Narcissus stares at mask of his face 
till Echo tosses cracked stone of her heart 
so he looks into dark pools of her eyes. 

Shocked at mercurial song of moon-white winds, 
I run outside and gaze at blazing clouds 
to see the crazy angel of despair 
wrestle jet planes that scream across the sky, 
then hurl their bombs of greed to outer space 
where they destroy worlds in ten billion years. 

Through silent grieving for the long-dead soul, 
whose absence haunts me as ghost of their love, 
I wander waste land of America 
beneath proud mirror of the mindless sun 
who shows me end of all organic souls 
that dissipate at death to wordless dust. 

As wordless dust in cold relentless wind 
that blows through endless maze of city streets, 
I translate timeless song of ocean waves 
to jaunty jingles on the radio 
that urge hard-working people to buy goods 
which heals the crazy angel of despair.