Civilization Built On Dirt

Civilization Built On Dirt
© Surazeus
2022 12 09

We build our civilization on dirt 
by extracting food crops and minerals 
so we can nourish bodies of our souls 
then vote for who will manage our estate 
as archangel of world authority 
who runs global food-production machine. 

We work on farms to cultivate the soil 
producing crops that nourish us with food, 
and work in shops to mold material forms 
constructing machines that enable work, 
while mortal god with executive skills 
reigns over our state on the ziggurat. 

Immortal spirit of the manager, 
skilled in organizing the labor force, 
possesses body of each mortal man 
who plays divine God on the ziggurat 
till he grows old, so on the verge of death 
he must choose the successor to his power. 

While God sits on throne in the temple hall, 
high on the ziggurat of divine power, 
he must choose who is worthy to succeed 
role of God who will judge life or death, 
his own son, incarnation of his genes, 
or his minister who earned his high rank. 

When God chooses his son as the new king, 
the minister, who works hard all his life, 
leads angels loyal to his honest cause 
in rebellion against tyrant of greed, 
so the Son of God must fight to deserve 
right to rule over people of the world. 

In our civilization built on dirt 
we frame architecture to support power 
on which the mortal human who plays god 
can maintain control of fertile land 
to manage production and distribution 
of food and minerals we extract from death. 

The monarch reigns on one arch of state power 
till anarchists rebel against his law 
lead by archangel of justice and truth 
who crowns himself monarch of all the land 
for humans fight over who owns the land 
unless they trust one man to judge their rights. 

Kneeling in the backyard of my small home, 
somewhere on the global chessboard of Earth, 
I dig my fingers down into moist dirt 
and feel cool energy of vital source 
from which we extract wealth of life through work 
in our civilization built on dirt.