Round Table Of Faith

Round Table Of Faith
© Surazeus
2024 05 06

Weird impulse of my heart to jump through time 
beyond capricious whim of self-restraint 
compels vindictive avarice of faith 
to perform impertinence of desire 
based on cupidity of social power 
with profligate passion of the fierce knave. 

Still indolent through bland venality 
with pettiness of the incompetent, 
the gullible obey the arrogant 
insatiate with torpidity of faith 
to prove their timid loyalty of greed, 
paralyzed by morbidity of truth. 

With vague turgidity of sacred laws, 
confused by strenuous turgency of faith, 
the haughty jester of the frozen church 
displays divergent tact of false alarms 
through dire emergency of timely faith 
each time another tyrant falls from power. 

Yet he just sits at round table of faith 
and stares at stars that streak across the sky 
to light stone walls of paradise with flame 
bright enough to blind the prophet of fear 
who ponders critical stance of state pride 
with cruel mendacity of faceless gods. 

Eager to survive these tumultuous times, 
despite imperative to colonize 
fertile valley of the spell-singing snake, 
I stare at visions of future events 
that glow in urgent waters of the stream 
with shy tenacity of mindless faith. 

Though strung up by his feet in the town square, 
the state boss who makes the trains run on time 
sends soldiers marching as to holy war 
beneath the bleeding cross of haughty faith 
that motivates attempt to conquer death 
who leaves us trapped in walls of paradise. 

Dire shadow of the early evening glow 
hangs still in forest of unmoving oaks 
to shroud momentous passion of the mind 
precipitate with eagerness of faith 
as if imperative to conquer Earth 
were no more than dinner joke of the rich. 

Monotonous sermon on treeless mount 
inhibits free expression of the heart 
in nation stagnant with arrogant faith 
because mad prophet of the humming toad 
would be paralyzed by the prize of fame 
so he jumps through time in words of his eyes.