Our Fight To Survive

Our Fight To Survive
© Surazeus
2024 01 21

The way dead leaves hang in gold light of dawn 
teaches me how to follow secret truth 
so I understand feelings hid in my heart 
that drive me to express in strangled words 
intention to survive surprise of pain 
that shatters illusion of our dream world. 

Humiliation of suffering from pain 
so many people of our world endure 
fails to tap resources of divine strength 
for spirits trapped in their interior lives 
with no prophetic diva with bright smile 
to sing strange beauty of sorrow they feel. 

Still running lost in labyrinth of hope 
millions of people escaping bomb blasts 
search endlessly for grove of apple trees 
where they can rest from terror of mute Death 
who always lurks in shadows of despair 
with bitter hunger of the predator. 

Yet when we band together in cold fear 
to form community of common faith, 
bonded by grand vision of the fierce fool, 
we work together to defeat the monster 
with humble disdain for his haughty rage 
in fight for freedom of the common soul. 

United by our common goal to live, 
expressed by prophecies of the blind seer, 
we form new nation with noble intent 
to claim fertile territory as our own, 
enclosing paradise with walls of faith 
that provide safe haven for all the lost. 

For centuries we build our private state 
organized around strict rules of behavior 
that maintain integrity of our strength 
to create children who obey the rules 
designed to enforce process of our growth 
till we thrive in vast empire of our truth. 

Now lead by king who serves the Holy Grail 
that generates life from womb of the Earth, 
we expand boundaries of religious faith 
to assimilate all nations of man 
within our whole superior way of life 
as we exercise police-state control. 

Our fight to survive in the wilderness 
fuels motivation of our empire growth 
to organize talents and skills of workers 
toward profit-driven industry of power 
till we control our globe spinning in space 
ruled by united nations of one god.