World Empire Of Faith

World Empire Of Faith
© Surazeus
2024 10 12

The empire we live in will not soon fall, 
so I sit on back deck of my quaint home 
and play melancholy tunes on guitar 
to remember when I was young and poor 
and traveled east across this wooded land 
my ancestors traveled centuries ago. 

Leaving ancient kingdoms of tyranny, 
where thugs in castles, wearing jeweled crowns, 
pronounced themselves agents of the Sky God, 
my ancestors sailed across sea of storms 
on fragile boats of faith in liberty 
to live free in this fertile Promised Land. 

Always traveling west in the wilderness, 
they left behind crowded cities of banks 
to live beyond the grasping hand of greed, 
but every valley where they escaped to 
was annexed by the kingdom of the east 
till we now live in world empire of faith. 

Unknown augur in haven of my home, 
I study how birds fly across the sky 
where Icarus once soared from castle tower 
to live free beyond walls of paradise, 
then analyze state of democracy 
to prophesy in riddles no one reads. 

Since honest prophets always end up dead, 
killed by cruel tyrants grasping for control, 
I hide dire prophecies in clever code, 
wrapped in enigmas of humorous jokes 
that no one ever seems to understand, 
so I live unlaureled, safe in my home. 

Since Adam founded Kingdom of the Word, 
established by David with sword of faith, 
ensured by Jesus to grow in our hearts, 
and expanded wide by Meroveus 
for Constantine, Arthur, and Charlemagne, 
our world empire grows in America. 

Through sacred bloodline of the Holy Grail 
Jehovah builds his world empire of faith 
in sons of Jesus incarnate as kings 
who strive to conquer all nations of Earth 
under one invisible Lightning God 
who patrols the world in starship of peace. 

Though fractured in hundreds of warring states, 
United Nations of Earth will compose 
world empire of faith under global law 
based on justice and liberty for all, 
beautiful vision that will never be 
as I flow with the river to the sea.