With You Beside Me

With You Beside Me
© Surazeus
2025 04 13

With you beside me on the road of life, 
companions sharing meals on river shores, 
we will not wander lost in Nowhere Land 
because we know the secret names we share 
as we help each other no matter what 
happens to us in the bleak wilderness. 

With you beside me in Garden of Eden, 
soul mates bound with affectionate respect, 
we know we will be safe in hills of demons 
because together in both sun and rain 
we experience harsh despair and sweet joy 
while searching for the Way to Wonderland. 

With you beside me at the Tree of Life, 
clever thieves swiping sweet apples of knowledge 
from the Serpent King on skull pyramid, 
we will escape prison of paradise 
enclosed by stone walls of paranoid fear 
on our vain quest to find the Promised Land. 

With you beside me on the windy prairie, 
sly explorers where the buffalo roam, 
we will express heart-encouraging words 
though dark thunderclouds darken our clear skies 
when the Storm God attacks our fragile souls 
as we shelter in deep Cave of Illusions. 

With you beside me as we roam and ramble, 
fellow owners of the land of our birth, 
we follow footsteps of our dead ancestors 
to sing, "This land was made for you and me," 
till strangers invade with weapons of death 
who drive us to wander in the waste land. 

With you beside me on the ribbon highway, 
lonely travelers in the golden valley, 
we map the world under the endless skyway 
to break signs that say Private Property, 
and stroll in fields where immigrants pick crops, 
then feast together on Thanksgiving Day. 

With you beside me in land of the brave, 
courageous patriots in band of brothers, 
we fight together against tyranny 
to support elective democracy 
where everyone lives with justice for all 
under the Star-Spangled Banner of Freedom. 

With you beside me in land of the free, 
freedom-fighters across the fruited plain, 
we all confirm our souls in self-control 
through exercise of liberty in law, 
to build from ruins of America 
new United States of Zarathia.