Inspired by Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
The search for the grail
is the search for the god in all of us.
Initial Instructions:
Make a hole in deconsecrated ground
where X marks the spot.
Descend beyond worldly knowledge
into what's unknown.
Step on death
as you search for the chalice of life.
The flame of faith
illuminates the way
through wet catacombs.
The ground is upholstered
with quilts of live rats squealing
like unborn children.
It is frightening
to know what we could become
had we not survived the journey
across our mother’s cave.
Men in day’s past maketh
death’s engravings shield meaning.
The Chase begins:
Beware of the perceived agents of evil
who are fast in your path,
they can deceive you, specially
when evil walks right by your side,
and she learns
that for a man,
to find the truth is to be
giddy as a schoolboy.
Cut to the Chase:
When flames chase you,
dip underwater.
To burn and choke
underground is
a fate for lesser men.
Cut to a boat chase.
Cut to not cutting
yourself with a propeller.
Cut to land,
where light will reveal
certain adverse truths:
Some angels are prepared
to do everything in order
to safeguard the sacred secret.
In the Next Leg of the Journey:
Follow the knowledge
of your lineage,
let it guide you
as you fill in the gaps
of your heritage
with your own
experiences.
Discover where your forefathers
were headed, before they were
cut short.
Sexual Warning:
If you force a kiss on a German
woman, don’t be dumbfounded
when she betrays you.
Lack of trust doesn’t ascertain
chemistry in a ransacked
bedroom.
Remember your words,
70% of archeology
happens in the library,
5% in the bedroom,
5% in caves,
5% in the desert,
and 15% in the strife for life.
Cut to the Castle:
Disguised,
arrive to the frontier
of evil.
Knock out he who speaks,
“if you are a lord,
I'm Mickey Mouse.”
Enter the father.
Enter men with guns.
“Who is going to save you, Junior?”
“Don't call me Junior.”
Oedipal rage explodes
like a machine gun.
How easy is to take life
when you are angry at
your father.
Clear the first room.
In the Second Room:
There will be a Mexican Standoff,
you better listen to your father
or the wench will betray you.
You don't listen to him and
the wench betrays you.
A Tight Situation:
Father and son are
tied to a chair.
Their quintessential naivete
stares down at the slime of humanity.
Father and son, walking
parallel paths,
slept with the same woman
with different results.
This is how we say goodbye in Austria (smack)
and this is how we say it in Germany. (smooch)
Fate tied us together to our backs,
but we created
an ingenious escape via
a ring of fire.
Escape Instructions:
Lazy-Susan from spy room
to a human barbecue room.
Escape the castle and remember,
justling isn't dead, so don't
bring a gun to a spear fight,
especially if you are a Nazi.
Decision at the Fork
The quest for the Grail is a race against evil
so choose at the fork in the crossroads
between saving a friend
or securing the book of knowledge
residing deep within the lion's den.
Fools are far more protected than wise men
even when they are captured.
The death of a mother
lingers in the dynamic of
two pilgrims venturing into
the unholy land
where knowledge is burnt.
In the Lion's Den:
Expose the wench,
“you claim to seek knowledge
but you stand with those
who incinerate it
who the hell cares what you think.”
For comic relief,
the ignorant dragon
signs their autograph
on the book he should
be confiscating.
It’s hard to be sober
when you are drunk with power.
Zeppelin tension:
Oh yeah, about the zeppelin.
don’t send a man to do an army’s job,
he will be sent flying out the window.
No ticket, no flight.
About the parent and son
sitting uncomfortably
on a zeppelin, talking about
fucking the same woman.
Father says,
"We shared an adventure."
Son says,
"I was the next man,
I wanted you to talk to me.
I wanted to know I was more important
than men that had been dead for 500 years in other countries.
I wanted to know that I could talk to you"
and now
I have nothing to say.
In the same way,
I know how to fly a plane
but not to land it.
I know I seek my father’s love
but I don’t know how to get it
and now violence threaten us both
with a crushing end.
Father says,
"don’t speak too soon,"
as he runs away,
he kills a plane
with a thousand birds.
"Let my armies be the rocks
and the trees and the birds in the sky."
Hardy men want to be soft.
You are meddling with powers
you can't possibly comprehend.
"You can't come second
on this race."
In the Desert, there Is a Horse with No Shame
To be in the desert without
transportation is
akin to the human soul
being disconnected
from a higher power,
"you are as good as dead."
A messenger from god
lies bloodied on the ground.
The angel speaks to the unholy man,
and with their last breath
promises them damnation.
A Holy War
Rages between a horse
and a gargantuan steel beast
where family lies undigested
and hostage.
The pen can be mightier than the sword
but not mightier
than a cannonball shot
at point blank range.
A little bit of advice,
don't fire guns inside a tank,
the bullets ricochet inside and
friendly fire is not so friendly.
Staring at the abyss,
The thought of losing his son
makes the father cry,
and even though both are live
and they embrace,
they remain unable to speak.
The feeling that they are missing
lies deeper
than any textbook, or any
archeological site
they have ever explored.
At the final cave,
the first trial will
make you lose your head.
The forces of good and evil met
and evil shots the father of good
to motivate and instigate
our hero to seek eternal life
not for himself
but for the sake of those he loves.
The first trial
is the breath of god,
"only the penitent man will pass."
The human self must bow down
to the god within you
or die as a mortal.
The second trial
is the word of god
"only in the footsteps of god will he proceed."
Young life walks while old life
struggles to not dry out.
Know what your sacred name is
that it might guide your steps
to a deeper truth.
We all hold the name of god
within us, and
to not transcend is to die.
Let us ignore the latin bias,
and the scholar classism,
as mortals, we are bound by words
to describe the indescribable.
The third trial is
the path of god.
"Only a leap of the lion's head will prove his worth."
Only the selfless,
can make the leap
into the obvious abyss,
only those who love others can
step into certain death
and walk the invisible path
to reveal the illusion:
To face inevitable death will bridge you
beyond your previous understandings.
Enter the final chamber
and meet the immortal saint
the third brother, the protector of the grail
weak and nimble, from 700 years of waiting
for a combat that has already been lost
since nobody can best time.
Evil sneaks prematurely
behind the trail of good.
Another test,
pick the right chalice.
"The true grail brings life,
the false grail will take it."
The wench chooses
and an evil man dies.
The word of god is not shrouded in gold
but in wood
and those who fear death
will find it
before their time.
A carpenter is humble
as the vessel for his drink.
The vessel of Christ brings
a father back to his son.
The final test is
to not cross the seal
with the divine gift.
To cross the boundaries
of the unknown
without God is to live.
To covet God outside of
its sacred space is not allowed.
But of course the wench
gets greedy, and the floor
of understanding collapses
beneath her feet.
With one hand she clings to salvation,
and with the other hand
she tries to reach for the Grail.
The lesson seems to be this,
reach for the life in front if you,
not for the phantom of a cup
that doesn’t belong to you.
The wench held on to greed
and paid the ultimate price.
In conclusion,
if you hold on to the wrong thing
you have more to lose than to gain.
And to make the right choice is to live,
and find your way home.
Indy almost got seduced by the grail
but choose to focus on his father,
and he found his way back
Home.
We are not meant to remain
in the non-ordinary world.
Follow the fool back into normality.
You are not a dog,
you are Junior.
Accept your identity
and go home,
a realized man
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