While Talking To My Mother

While Talking To My Mother
© Surazeus
2026 10 13

While talking to my mother about truth, 
I reach hand to pluck fruit from Tree of Life  
when gold-eyed serpent with four rainbow wings 
tricks me to believe that Star Man in the Cloud 
will punish me if I eat fruit of knowledge 
so I eat it with heart-poisoning guilt. 

While talking to my mother about trust, 
she tells me she met my father for tryst 
in Tree of Knowledge by the demon pool 
so I run through bright flowers in the field 
to escape the man in the wolf-fur cloak 
who begs me to play bride at his cave hearth. 

While talking to my mother about hope, 
I struggle gasping to climb mountain slope, 
then stand on moon-high peak of howling wind 
to survey world of rivers between hills 
that spins through ocean of electric stars 
which swirl around me as cupids on wings. 

While talking to my mother about faith, 
I perceive vision of immortal wraith 
that rises from her transient frame of flesh 
as ancient goddess with ten million eyes 
who teaches me to generate new life 
from ambitious passion of the Wolf Man. 

While talking to my mother about love, 
I learn from her how to mold wheat in loaf 
which I bake in hot oven of my heart 
till I give birth to bread with blinking eyes 
who smiles when I hum hymn of holy breath 
that fills his body with spirit of life. 

While talking to my mother about fear, 
I watch my son construct and wield sharp spear 
from stick and stone he hones with honest courage, 
then wear fur cape to hunt monsters of rage 
which he kills with attentive strike of power 
when lightning strikes bright as the yarrow flower. 

While talking to my mother about fate, 
I choose to open wide the city gate 
so refugees from wars for fertile land, 
fought fiercely between gods on ziggurats, 
name me Zilpa with the Generous Hand 
when I host feast in Temple of the Wolf. 

While talking to my mother about death, 
I listen to her pray with her last breath 
that I might understand essence of life 
which I mold in bodies as mother-wife 
and raise my sons, Gad and Asher, to rule 
empire of wisdom with the sacred tool.