Our Global Tyrant

Our Global Tyrant
© Surazeus
2023 09 13

To live again free in wild woods forlorn, 
I would escape metropolitan maze 
in one continuous city of roads 
that spans our spinning globe with glowing towers 
long expanding from original hall 
founded at core of Pandemonium. 

Still slouching from Bethlehem of his birth, 
that giant god of shadowy unlight, 
revered by millions as immortal tyrant, 
lumbers over burning marl of world city 
with ancient wand, bereft of magic powers, 
where humans swarm like bees in cement hives. 

Clutching cracked wand of grim authority, 
tall as some tar-slicked telephone pole, stuck 
in prairie soil by signless country road 
amid wheat fields of corporate wealth, world god, 
adored by police and soldiers with guns, 
over cities of working people glowers. 

After eating grass seven thousand years, 
then howling mad with laughter of despair 
that blind fortune destroys all he creates 
though he obeys divine rules, global king, 
puffed huge with hot air of arrogance, 
preaches national pride with words of rage. 

Demanding love through blind obedience 
to whimsical will of his turbid mind, 
ever flashing with grandiose programs 
where nameless slaves construct bold monuments 
that illustrate his genius through design, 
our global tyrant sneers with proud contempt. 

Each tyrant who falls from weight of blind fear, 
collapsing into heap of broken skulls, 
makes way for younger tyrants, hot with rage, 
to burst like wasps from rotten corpse of faith 
till ten thousand cities of steel-glass towers, 
based on Pandemonium, teem with tyrants. 

While countless tyrants, imitating Satan 
with serpentine hiss of greed forged from fear, 
conduct gang wars in Pandemonian suburbs, 
that faceless God of Good that humans worship, 
who fierce prayers imagine reigns on high throne 
of judgment, sits paralyzed on Glow Cloud. 

Ascending flat-top pyramid of power, 
I stand before tall faceless God of Light 
and ask he enforce judgment of his law 
to punish our global tyrant with justice 
so every person may live as they will, 
till I find I am that paralyzed god.