Fight To Be Together Now

Fight To Be Together Now
© Surazeus
2023 06 18

Dark specter of inevitable death 
looms over every creature on this Earth 
because our sun will burn out into gloom 
so we should sit on lake shores and despair 
instead of struggling each day to survive 
for we are pulsing blobs of chemicals. 

There are no happy endings for our tales 
for though we raise our children to love and build 
the farcical charade of daily life 
we call civilization will collapse 
and scatter families in the wilderness 
where we clutch at uncaring sands of time. 

Though we are beams of pulsing energy 
awake with consciousness of this frail self 
there is no meaning to our futile being 
for we are characters our dreams invent 
performing sad roles in grand narratives 
we kill each other in wars to prove right. 

While we are vibrant with young energy 
we dream grand visions where each soul will live 
with joyful pleasure of beautiful truth 
but harsh reality of hungry death 
crushes our spirits into bloody dirt 
for we cannot outrun the scythe of death. 

With utter meaninglessness of existence 
we grow strong battling demons of despair 
by clawing roots from rancid soil of fear 
and snatching fruit from serpent jaws of rage 
with desperate hope to evade slow decay 
till we crumble into cold silent graves. 

Though our mothers tell us with sincere voice 
that love supports sacred meaning of life 
we can discover on our quest for truth 
yet we evolve from surging sea of lust 
in random sequence of conformity 
nurtured by safe state of the atmosphere. 

Yet I decide to work my crafting hands 
to construct safe haven of paradise 
where I guard my wife and children from harm 
while they tend fruit trees and gardens of herbs 
so we can sit at table of firm faith 
and feast on bounty of indifferent Earth. 

Though we decay and die with turn of time 
on this frail planet spinning in the void 
we choose to live this hour with laughing joy 
by holding hands with the person we love 
so we can sing hymns that record our hopes 
about our fight to be together now.