Shadowed Wing Of Truth

Shadowed Wing Of Truth
© Surazeus
2022 12 26

With every shadowed wing of truth I feign 
at wretched flash of lightning on the sea 
my heart contrives to break free from desire 
so I transcend this mortal coil through hope 
to stand on stage of prophecy and sing 
terrible visions that life may soon end. 

When Triton lurches from the seething sea 
to blow loud horn of warning from the storm 
that blows across our global city maze, 
I wake from slumber safe in cyberspace 
to see fearful men form gangs from despair 
that threaten our peaceful democracy. 

Unresting tumult of continual change 
inspires whole nations of eager young souls 
to rise against imperial hierarchies 
and form world alliance for liberty 
with justice-loving tribes in every land 
regardless of their religion or race. 

Asserting universal slate of rights 
for every person to live as they will 
with equal opportunity to thrive, 
we resist tyrants who clutch at state power 
by opposing their vested privilege 
they claim based on their fake nobility. 

When empires build their process of success 
around personality of one man 
to foster religious cult in his name, 
enforcing mindless obedience from fear, 
their fractured institutes fail to address 
problems faced by poor people in the streets. 

Such empires built on illusion of trust 
collapse into warring states that compete 
through bitter conflict for the fertile lands 
where common people raise crops with their hands 
when the perfect god who centers their cult 
dies in relentless cycle of transitions. 

Kings and presidents ruling vast nations 
come and go in constant exchange of power 
through rebellions against authority, 
yet herdsmen, farmers, and craftsmen remain 
performing constructive acts of design 
to organize labor of equal workers. 

The men and women who work with their hands, 
converting rich material of the Earth 
to food that fuels our bodies, and machines 
that aid production, inherit the Earth 
by forming governments based on fair laws, 
so we live with peace in our new world order.