Nurture Our Free Will

Nurture Our Free Will
© Surazeus
2024 02 28

When I hear ghostly wail in evening rain 
that drenches houses in forest of oaks, 
I stand on front porch of my floating mind 
to watch grim demons fly across the sky 
as they seek traitors to God on his throne 
who glares with rage alone in hall of mirrors. 

So I spread wings of Icarus to soar 
along with demons over city maze 
and watch them searching shadows of despair 
where innocent people hide behind masks 
to guard their thoughts from government control 
as they attend dreams of their special lives. 

Landing on high peak of Mount Helicon, 
I watch as angels and demons combat 
when opposing forces of light and dark 
clash over whose view of government 
between democracy or tyranny 
prevails to organize our human lives. 

Face to face on the One-Eyed Pyramid, 
Christus and Satan, like Mazda and Iman, 
Fenrir and Odin, and Cronus and Zeus, 
fight through another Gotterdammerung 
in Titanomachy to control the world, 
clashing over whose view of Man is right. 

Satan commands that every human being 
submit conscious agency of free will 
to dictatorship of his divine law 
so they live as he wills without complaint, 
robots who obey His Authority 
when he exploits their labor for his wealth. 

Christus declares that every human being 
employs conscious agency of free will 
to exercise liberty through their choice 
so they live as they will, if they harm none, 
free agents who create themselves through love 
when they correct their mistakes to live well. 

Over the past contentious hundred years 
humans in every nation on the Earth 
have united to overthrow cruel kings 
who ruled their lives over ten thousand years, 
thus we declare our sacred right to vote 
for presidents who nurture our free will. 

Though fascist forces of cruel tyranny 
seem to rise again from graves of kings 
with fierce intention to enslave our souls, 
we fight to maintain world democracy 
with honest respect for all human beings 
as we build United Nations of Earth.