Though Fascists Threaten

Though Fascists Threaten
© Surazeus
2024 01 28

Though our revels have all ended in death, 
celebrating rise and fall of our state 
soon to be reborn on frail Phoenix wings 
from flames of conflict between different views 
on how people should perform games of power, 
we will gather to feast and dance again. 

Though we are actors melted into air, 
destroyed by conflicts between greedy kings, 
we were never spirits without flesh bodies 
for we construct new humble homes from hope 
to survive on this globe that dissolves not 
long after our substantial pageants fade. 

Though clever men, terrified by mute death, 
assert their rights in global games of chess, 
unconsciously moved by ancestral souls 
who fought brutal wars to crown themselves kings, 
seem to rule with iron fists in tall towers, 
they all will fall from pinnacles of power. 

Though elected presidents of vast nations 
acclaim themselves wise rulers of their peoples, 
and cling to official roles of state power 
through terror of monsters hunting their souls, 
they will collapse from exertion of force, 
exhausted from vigor of divine might. 

Though political gangs of social power 
form networks of alliances, that span 
international borders with taut web 
of fear binding local communities 
in coalitions of psychic control, 
vexation shatters illusion of faith. 

Though dictators who rule without gold crowns 
fall from pinnacles of power in disgrace 
when the people unite with loyal hearts 
to wield equal rights of justice for all, 
they build no Hell in waste land of despair, 
nor return as blind prophet of lost truth. 

Though complex rituals of democracy 
seethe with restless energy of desire, 
barely reined by vision of equal rights 
ordered by honest men the people choose, 
fascists attempting to control our minds 
fail from fatigue and lose the crown of power. 

Though fascists threaten to exploit our souls 
to enslave our will to work for their wealth 
by enforcing laws that constrain our right 
to choose how we will live through Liberty, 
our freedom of speech to live as we will, 
if we harm none, will overcome their greed.