Life As Hungry Savages

Life As Hungry Savages
© Surazeus
2025 03 28

Dozing on the back porch in the warm sun, 
I contemplate red history of the gun 
that toppled empires of the sword and horse 
and fueled mankind on faster-engined course, 
so now we race to control every isle 
while attending state feasts with graceful style. 

The fallen airplane floats on ocean waves 
just offshore from the secret cliffside caves 
where our ancestors first drew images 
to transcend life as hungry savages, 
so Icarus spreads his wings without faith 
and soars among clouds with the mindless wraith. 

His mother calls him from the tower porch, 
then wanders in the night with flaming torch 
to find where he has fallen from the sky 
so she can ask the bitter devil why 
he dares rebel against the tyrant king 
who shoots any angel who tries to sing. 

Kneeling in dust before the pyramid 
where Jupiter keeps stolen treasure hid, 
Lucifer packs powder in metal pipe 
then aims rifle to kill God Archetype 
who decrees he owns both body and soul 
of every human he assigns state role. 

Roused from my slumber in the warm noon sun, 
I grumble at slaughter caused by the gun 
the past five hundred years of holy wars 
that gangs of men fight to control food stores 
as we transform castles into glass banks 
and horses mutate into brutal tanks. 

Glancing upward at glowing clouds of fate, 
I search blank space for ministers of hate 
who rampage now through halls of government 
to pilfer treasures of entitlement 
that shatters sense of safety we all share 
in system we had built that shows we care. 

Dismissing tragic events of this age, 
caused by the greedy vampire on world stage, 
King Midas shouts that he will rule the world 
while citizens pray for the cosmic herald 
to solve our crisis with respectful law 
enforced by wisdom of brave Onatah. 

Illusion of power enforced by guns 
dissolves at radiance of our freedom songs 
so we rise up from lethargy of fear 
and march against the thieving puppeteer 
to free America from tyranny 
and build stronger global democracy.