Choice Of Our Free Will

Choice Of Our Free Will
© Surazeus
2024 11 01

As I drive over the long Bridge of Hope 
toward the rising sun of our new world order 
I remember what the cruel tyrant king 
shouted in rage till he fell from the tower 
after we took away his bloody sword 
and left him imprisoned in his despair. 

"In order to function with ordered rites 
mortal humans who struggle against fear 
need the bold dependable lie to live 
as guiding light that gets them through each day, 
for the lie that helps them believe in love 
forms foundation for the stable world order." 

While the morning sun gleams over far hills, 
streaming rays of light through the trees of fruit, 
I laugh at irony of his false truth, 
for now I understand the strong appeal 
belief in the afterlife of the soul 
holds for some people terrified of death. 

When we contemplate the vast span of time 
since the first flash of the big bang flared forth 
into galaxies of stars that nurture worlds, 
we tremble with awe at Eternity, 
and wonder why our bright lives are so brief, 
why we feel immortal as we decay. 

Pythagoras reasoned the conscious soul 
could not have come from nothing of the void, 
therefore our souls must beam down from the stars 
to animate changing bodies of flesh 
with power of immortal energy, 
then beam back up to source stars when we die. 

Yet I know consciousness of self I am 
is generated by my dreaming brain 
as chemical function of its network, 
this vision-making machine of neurons 
that conjures virtual model of the world, 
programmed to mate and make life till we die. 

I refuse to accept in face of death 
this convenient lie of the afterlife, 
though it keeps most people from going mad, 
for I am happy in the simple knowledge 
that this brief flicker of my conscious life 
is all I get to savor truth of love. 

I want to build new more stable world order 
on honest truth that everyone will die 
for any society based on some lie 
will always collapse into tyranny, 
so I preach justice and freedom for all 
to exercise the choice of our free will.