If We Do Nothing

If We Do Nothing
© Surazeus
2025 02 18

If we hear strange voices in doors of fate 
that plot to steal everything we create, 
we could hide our hearts in the fractured stone 
and ask bank of dreams for the secret loan, 
or we could whistle and bake chocolate cake, 
and wait for the social system to break. 

If we want to take this chance to escape 
we could don our boots and Superman cape, 
then sail across the sea to Isle of Skye, 
or we could carry the big stick and try 
to fight against rampaging gang of thieves 
who hide our treasures under piles of leaves. 

If we hope to restore democracy 
by opposing king of hypocrisy, 
we must assemble with electric kites 
on noble mission to protect our rights 
to dance in ring of stones for sacred cause 
rebuilding institute of honest laws. 

If we see gangs of thugs with law-blind guns 
dragging away parents from daughters and sons, 
we could join forces to obstruct their acts, 
and argue based on adjustable facts, 
though they try to crush our spirits with hate 
because with each choice we design our fate. 

If we do nothing, paralyzed with fears, 
while oligarchs jam governmental gears, 
they will wreck our food-production machine 
to enslave our souls when the times are lean, 
and keep us working in factories of greed 
because they control our functional need. 

If we can find no beauty in pure art, 
each person forced to play robotic part, 
sad Keats will never sing of sacred truth 
till revolution of messiah sleuth 
casts greedy Midas from throne of state power, 
so we can admire mystery of the flower. 

If we accept their bloodless money coup, 
bankrupt with too many bills coming due, 
we could desert their crumbling urban zones 
to wander in fields of dinosaur bones, 
or we could unite what their greed divides 
and storm compound where the weak tyrant hides. 

If we shall meet in the well-lighted place 
to remove mask of fear from our own face, 
we will find courage of hope to resist 
tyrannical project of the fascist 
and build on ruins of America 
strong new republic of Zarathia.