Chew Gold Coins

Chew Gold Coins
© Surazeus
2024 12 20

Not long for the darkness of the closed book 
will I still float in water of the lake 
to contemplate how birds fly among clouds 
where they transform into angels with harps 
who play sweet music of the afterlife 
that lures me to walk the lost primrose path. 

Each person in our far-wandering clan 
lies down along the signless road of hope 
where they dissolve into soil of the Earth, 
so we continue walking somewhere else 
to find the elusive fountain of youth 
whose waters restore our bodies to health. 

This ancient memory of my wandering tribe 
haunts me while I sit at my office desk 
with fingers weaving documents of faith 
that describe progress of our business model 
to sell more units to our customers 
who remember crouching on the bleak plain. 

Our shared communal memory of the past 
when we journeyed across landscape of desire, 
hunting animals to roast on the fire, 
and gathering fruits and herbs from lush vales, 
motivates drive of our capitalist state 
to operate factories producing food. 

Rising from silver water of the lake 
that cleans my body and mind from hard work 
of helping run the world corporate machine, 
I stretch my body from Earth to Blue Sky 
where no angels play harps on glowing clouds, 
then lounge under the willow on the shore. 

The man gliding behind me on the road 
slows his motorbike when I turn around, 
and grins as he aims pistol at my heart, 
then shouts, "Your business model based on greed 
scams the people who work hard while you play," 
then fires seven bullets into my soul. 

I wish I could say that when I arrive 
at the Gates of Heaven, where Peter sits 
processing souls, he could adjudicate 
my earned admission into paradise, 
but I sink into gloom of nothingness 
as Peter pushes me off the gold cloud. 

Now I wander in my enormous mansion 
forever searching for something to eat, 
but all I find are heaps of metal coins 
that once could buy favorable legislation 
deregulating how I conduct business, 
so I chew gold coins for eternity.