Exiled From Heaven

Exiled From Heaven
© Surazeus
2024 08 31

From the safe walled garden of apple trees 
wander the lonely homeless refugees 
Adam and Eve, exiled from state of grace 
to wilderness absent the blazing face 
of wise authority on hill of power 
where faceless god weeps in the silent tower. 

When aging king on pyramid of fate, 
who rules wheat fields beyond the iron gate, 
chooses his Son over wise Counselor 
to wield golden scepter of Lucifer 
as loaf-ward who guards garden of fruit trees, 
he is shocked at rebellion of the bees. 

Chosen to serve at left hand of the king, 
the poor son of the wainwright without ring, 
who works his way up bureaucratic ranks 
from clerk to inspector of storage tanks, 
feels rage the king crowns his arrogant son 
to rule the world of the blossoming sun. 

Organizing coup to crown himself lord, 
the wise Counselor grasps the flaming sword 
and leads his angels of bureaucracy 
to battle proud nobles of theocracy 
through revolution to control the land 
and seize means of production with his hand. 

On high flat-top pyramid of the state 
the Son and the Counselor battle fate 
in clash of wills over who wields the keys 
to warehouses and gardens of fruit trees, 
till the Son with deceptive sleight of hand 
drives the Mad Rebel into the waste land. 

Exiled from Heaven by the Son of God, 
the Mad Rebel rants against haughty fraud, 
then leads lost angels to the Promised Land 
where they build new Heaven with bleeding hand, 
then crowns himself king of the wilderness 
where he rules small empire of bitterness. 

Visiting wheat farms and gardens of trees, 
the Rebel King bearing newly-forged keys 
tries to convince the Adam of each state 
to accept him as Ruler of their Fate, 
but those who sign the treaty are cast out 
from paradise by God Son with more clout. 

Both exiled from their original home, 
the Rebel King and the Garden Lord roam 
lost in the wilderness of hungry hope 
till they learn how to survive fear and cope, 
then build new heaven and garden of faith 
where their sons worship them as the God Wraith.