Elusive Ghost Of Innocence

Elusive Ghost Of Innocence
© Surazeus
2026 11 01

Too subtle for acknowledgement, contrived 
by unpaged books of arrogant dismay 
expressed by humble workers of the world, 
his secret spells depict excessive truth 
buried under stones in gardens of faith 
that mean nothing to sweet waves of the sea. 

Still dancing in the crowded club at dawn, 
after the vampires and kings have gone home, 
she struts before blank face of god with pride 
that she votes for the jester to assume 
rule of nations with justice of the joke 
designed to deconstruct wealth privilege. 

Soul projected through stereopticon 
by moonbeams of antisocial regret, 
he hears the earth revolving fast as wind 
in crystal flux of languages designed 
with beautiful joy of oblivion 
that fools the wise to believe we may live. 

Counting scenes his brain remembers as dreams 
of lightning calculators, that expose 
grief of wounded hearts, trapped by belief 
in bright illusion of the afterlife, 
she claims elusive ghost of innocence 
that lingers where all rivers disappear. 

Exploring waste land of bleak galaxies, 
sunk in countless slumbers of hemispheres, 
ineffable with faces of brave people, 
he mimics how astronomers perform 
arcane rituals of psychic augury 
through revelation of the fractured mind. 

Freed from surveillance of blood-thirsty ghosts 
who win election as state governors, 
she conceals treasures pilfered from sad gods 
who dwell in Valley of Sincerity 
among mulberry bushes of fake joy, 
bearded penitents who circle the pool. 

Too many years ago to understand 
sputtering gaslights on the boulevard 
where hungry girls sell flowers of despair 
to haughty shepherds in suits and top hats, 
he floats through countless doors of empty homes 
to find the Good God who does not exist. 

When he asks Goldilocks to marry him, 
with jeweled ring he stole from Saruman, 
she tells him she prefers the forest bear, 
so he transforms into werewolf of rage 
to wins election as the city mayor 
while she works as nurse at the hospital.