Museum Of Characters
© Surazeus
2017 11 28
We base everything in society
around the idol of human persona,
specific character who represents
the spirit of each institution built
on noble deeds they performed to express
complex vision of our strange universe.
Each religion is based on human mind
who sought to comprehend the universe,
the prophet who walked out beyond the walls
of their protective haven to explore
the wilderness of visions, then returned
to teach mute villagers truth about life,
after they gazed in the abyss of death,
how everything that exists is composed
of one vibrant element that contains
all conscious entities with dreaming brains
and calls the universal ground of being
God who knows itself awake in our eyes.
Each nation is based on human hand
who fought against oppressive gangs of thieves,
the warrior who wrestled demons of fear
and challenged god-priest on the pyramid
to battle over who controls the fate
of men and women farming fields of wheat,
and herding cows and sheep, so we can store
food for winter in the warehouse of walls
in exchange for gold coins that represent
goods we generate from the fertile Earth,
since we trust the Loaf-Ward as honest Lord
who leads our tribe to overcome mute death
and distribute food to all worthy souls
who work to increase the wealth of our tribe.
Each institution based on social group
forms around one wise personality
whose insight guides our actions to produce
goods and services in the market place
that operates functions of craftsmanship
so we all cooperate to grow food,
and design machines that ease our hard work,
which sustains our bodies when we consume
atoms mutating from core elements
of light, rain, soil, and air in food we eat.
One night young Abram stood on star-lit plain
and thought about how every group of people
forms around the wise leader of their tribe
who seems to manifest the divine spirit
of mental insight into how things work
so when they face problems of life and death
they develop solutions to construct
process of interaction that will nourish
pleasure of life in functions of our bodies.
Yet when that person who manifests wisdom,
who long played living god on pyramid,
dies in process of time, and their moist flesh
crumbles to dust that leaves behind mute skull,
another person rises to play role
of wise leader who guides ways of their tribe
so they survive against chaos of death,
chosen to rule by their collective trust.
So Abram proclaims that bodies of men,
formed from dust of the Earth, glow warm with light
of some animating spirit who lives
beyond the death of individual persons,
and calls this universal spirit God
who flows from body to body of kings
in eternal stream of divine rebirth.
Each tribe of people, wise Abram explains,
follows their leader they worship as god,
but one invisible God rules the world
when it manifests itself in the bodies
of mortal men who play god in its stead,
so though nations of men around the globe
form boundaries to puzzle fertile lands
they unify into one global empire,
composing United Nations of Earth.
We tell stories of humans who performed
deeds of good or evil in tale of life
that weaves one narrative of social action
in grand epic song of progress through deeds
that create or destroy structure of empires
so characters of people who once lived
embody universal traits through myths
that calculate the archetypes of brains.
The Gods of religions and national legends
present the characters we value most
and thus we worship idols of dead people
which present actions of dramatic force
as worthy of our worship and devotion
so when we face problems in our own lives,
wandering in the labyrinth of illusions,
we ask ourselves, what would our best god do,
and then we act on principles of law
that favor construction over destruction,
and write our own tales into history.
I wander Museum of Characters
and gaze in face of each lost human soul
who lived once in the weird dream of our world
and see their actions play on stage of time
to manifest their role in history
of human progress through which we evolve,
transforming from monkeys to thinking gods.
© Surazeus
2017 11 28
We base everything in society
around the idol of human persona,
specific character who represents
the spirit of each institution built
on noble deeds they performed to express
complex vision of our strange universe.
Each religion is based on human mind
who sought to comprehend the universe,
the prophet who walked out beyond the walls
of their protective haven to explore
the wilderness of visions, then returned
to teach mute villagers truth about life,
after they gazed in the abyss of death,
how everything that exists is composed
of one vibrant element that contains
all conscious entities with dreaming brains
and calls the universal ground of being
God who knows itself awake in our eyes.
Each nation is based on human hand
who fought against oppressive gangs of thieves,
the warrior who wrestled demons of fear
and challenged god-priest on the pyramid
to battle over who controls the fate
of men and women farming fields of wheat,
and herding cows and sheep, so we can store
food for winter in the warehouse of walls
in exchange for gold coins that represent
goods we generate from the fertile Earth,
since we trust the Loaf-Ward as honest Lord
who leads our tribe to overcome mute death
and distribute food to all worthy souls
who work to increase the wealth of our tribe.
Each institution based on social group
forms around one wise personality
whose insight guides our actions to produce
goods and services in the market place
that operates functions of craftsmanship
so we all cooperate to grow food,
and design machines that ease our hard work,
which sustains our bodies when we consume
atoms mutating from core elements
of light, rain, soil, and air in food we eat.
One night young Abram stood on star-lit plain
and thought about how every group of people
forms around the wise leader of their tribe
who seems to manifest the divine spirit
of mental insight into how things work
so when they face problems of life and death
they develop solutions to construct
process of interaction that will nourish
pleasure of life in functions of our bodies.
Yet when that person who manifests wisdom,
who long played living god on pyramid,
dies in process of time, and their moist flesh
crumbles to dust that leaves behind mute skull,
another person rises to play role
of wise leader who guides ways of their tribe
so they survive against chaos of death,
chosen to rule by their collective trust.
So Abram proclaims that bodies of men,
formed from dust of the Earth, glow warm with light
of some animating spirit who lives
beyond the death of individual persons,
and calls this universal spirit God
who flows from body to body of kings
in eternal stream of divine rebirth.
Each tribe of people, wise Abram explains,
follows their leader they worship as god,
but one invisible God rules the world
when it manifests itself in the bodies
of mortal men who play god in its stead,
so though nations of men around the globe
form boundaries to puzzle fertile lands
they unify into one global empire,
composing United Nations of Earth.
We tell stories of humans who performed
deeds of good or evil in tale of life
that weaves one narrative of social action
in grand epic song of progress through deeds
that create or destroy structure of empires
so characters of people who once lived
embody universal traits through myths
that calculate the archetypes of brains.
The Gods of religions and national legends
present the characters we value most
and thus we worship idols of dead people
which present actions of dramatic force
as worthy of our worship and devotion
so when we face problems in our own lives,
wandering in the labyrinth of illusions,
we ask ourselves, what would our best god do,
and then we act on principles of law
that favor construction over destruction,
and write our own tales into history.
I wander Museum of Characters
and gaze in face of each lost human soul
who lived once in the weird dream of our world
and see their actions play on stage of time
to manifest their role in history
of human progress through which we evolve,
transforming from monkeys to thinking gods.
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