Speak With Brave Voice

Speak With Brave Voice
© Surazeus
2026 01 23

Honest arrogance of the special fool 
fools everyone to think they are more wise 
than brave horse that leaps barbed-wire fence at dawn 
to race swift train of new technology 
where artificial intelligence dreams 
electric cows that give conceptual milk. 

I would rather consume chocolate bars 
after I encounter ghouls of despair 
that suck all happiness from my sponge brain 
soaked with divine oil of transcendent truths 
that children buy at the penny arcade 
where King Chuckles wears plastic crown of power. 

Turning away from modernist despair 
to avoid snark of juvenile satire, 
I seek strange beauty of the mountain lake 
that shimmers bright as Mirror of God Mind 
which reflects how humans perceive themselves 
as wingless angels on heavenly Earth. 

When cursing agents of the government, 
who break open doors of our private homes 
without warrant that proves committed crimes, 
I overhear myself speak with brave voice 
of Jesus when he drove from temple hall 
money-changers who cheat people with scams. 

Now I would rather sing Horatian odes 
praising athletes at the Olympic Games 
where humans test endurance with lithe skill 
in harmony with slippery ice of change 
as we evolve beyond our present state 
to overcome our weaknesses with verve. 

How gracefully she swirls on gleaming ice 
with calm elegance of the broad-winged swan 
while her brother, who wears black suit of fear 
and mask that covers his face, grips huge gun 
to arrest people on their way to work 
and locks them in vast prison camp of greed. 

Transforming from republic to empire, 
like Rome during civil wars for control 
between gangs of thieves who claim heritage 
of Hercules the Mighty Conqueror, 
America strives to fulfill oracle 
which Onatah proclaimed in field of corn. 

When brutal ice storm freezes Dixieland 
under black boots of Jack Frost and his gang, 
Minerva will rise from woods of the south 
to wave our blood-stained flag of Liberty 
while Apollo plays electric guitar 
in holy war to save democracy.