Worship God Machines

Worship God Machines
© Surazeus
2024 08 01

With languid nonchalance of howling trees 
children and cats lounge in foul factory breeze 
though pines and cement smokestacks will compete 
for who wears crown of thorns in smoggy sleet, 
so cars transform into corporate robots 
who brew herb wine in iridescent pots. 

Tomorrow creeps on convalescent feet 
with bitter eagerness of faith to meet 
Death walking with us on long winding road 
to crumbling temple of our psychic toad 
whose eyes of flashing television screens 
entrance our minds to worship god machines. 

If scarlet dragon writhing from tin car 
considers theory of the mindless star, 
we could advance beyond this dream stalemate 
to help our mothers cook against grim fate 
who send us to gather eggs in the woods 
while humble wolves haunt secret neighborhoods. 

Yet ribboned missile of silk molecules, 
designed from seeds of arbitrary rules, 
assassinates bearded wizard of peace 
who sons return with the Golden Fleece, 
because Minerva, wearing gown of flags, 
bears torch of freedom in parade of stags. 

Arriving back on Earth on wings of flame, 
Minerva wields Sword of Justice to tame 
aggressive horde of vikings in blue jeans 
as her beauty dominates campaign scenes 
in tragic comedy of our state play 
when we all vote for world democracy. 

Through every open door of honesty 
we run with hope beyond eternity 
but tumble wingless from celestial tower 
in constant revolution to gain power 
when good and evil swirl in human hearts, 
which realigns old political charts. 

Sailing wild ocean waves in fragile boat, 
I escape tyranny for right to vote, 
but tyrants wielding weapons of cruel death 
charge taxes to monopolize our breath, 
so we paint walls of temples white with faith 
in fair justice enforced by the star wraith. 

Because our vision of this noble land 
crumbles to puzzles in my grasping hand, 
I redesign how I perceive the world 
to match prophecies of the cosmic herald 
who explains to me that beauty is truth, 
as foretold by the blind messiah sleuth.