Oedipus With Starry Eyes

Oedipus With Starry Eyes
© Surazeus
2023 08 19

While I wander through global city maze 
of giant towers, haunted by blind ghosts 
of our fathers who sired us from desire 
to evade silent nothingness of death, 
I explore disastrous mess humans make 
constructing vast networks of pipes and wires. 

Piles of bricks lurch low over narrow roads 
of sticky asphalt sweltering in hot sun, 
connected by pipes of water from lakes, 
electric wires sizzling with energy, 
and cables composing the world wide web 
where ghosts of living humans interact. 

With hungry hands we wreck our paradise 
of fruit trees imprisoned in walls of stone, 
cluttering Eden with vast Metropolis 
of towers and roads, overcrowded zoo 
where free humans demanding equal rights 
keep keys to home cages in frightened hands. 

Ten million years from now the swirling Earth 
will have eaten all our cities of fear, 
and swallowed huge towers of steel and glass 
into deep caverns of silent desire, 
erasing civilization from time 
as new creatures evolve from the sea. 

So I will rise from field of golden wheat, 
walk past the blind Sphinx to the court of Thebes 
and ask wise Oedipus with starry eyes 
how we humans can treat Earth with respect, 
but he owns oil wells and refineries 
that fuel factories, power plants, and cars. 

Shaking off the chains of credit card debt, 
we rise in revolution against God 
to storm the Gates of Heaven on the hill 
and drag the shining tyrant from his throne 
then sacrifice him on altar of power 
so we can feast on wisdom of his word. 

To free Minerva from his tyranny, 
and protect her from his fist of abuse 
when he tries to control with laws of greed 
spirit production of her fertile womb, 
I fight against Jupiter with the truth, 
for I am Lucifer, fallen from grace. 

Though we humans poison this blooming world 
with cars and factories spewing smog of fear, 
yet still we generate children from love 
who reperform myth of Adam and Eve 
when we steal apples from the Tree of Life, 
fooled by wise Oedipus with starry eyes.