Ghosts Of Tyrannical Kings

Ghosts Of Tyrannical Kings
© Surazeus
2024 11 27

Though our fertile land of democracy 
has nurtured Liberty four centuries, 
ghosts of tyrannical kings haunt our hearts 
when greedy men grasping to control power 
rise from cathedral tombs of rotting corpses 
with thirst to exploit our labor for wealth. 

Dynastic clans across kingdoms of Europe 
grappled to control fertile river valleys 
through marriage alliances based on greed 
till cousins fought each other in world wars 
and shattered old system of castle thrones 
to free the people from their tyranny. 

Refugees who fled cruel religious wars 
established system of democracy 
where every person enjoyed privilege 
of civil liberties to exercise 
right to vote wise representatives 
funding programs that build justice for all. 

Now solid institutions of our state, 
geared to function despite each regime change, 
based on constitution of honest laws 
instead of individuals seeking power, 
are toppling from forces of selfish greed 
asserted by obsessive oligarchs. 

I want to save our nation from attack 
by thieves disguised as bankrolled businessmen 
who strive to deregulate structured laws 
designed to check monopoly of power, 
but I am just one person in this land, 
outnumbered by privileged nationalists. 

Appointing himself dictator for life, 
Caesar reached for long-unworn crown of power 
snatched from cruel rapist, Tarquin the Proud, 
so Brutus conspired to arrest his grasp 
by implementing solution of justice 
to prevent tyrants from grasping control. 

Now ghost of Tarquin haunts America 
in haughty Caesar blustering foul decrees 
with puffed-up arrogance of Mussolini, 
declaring himself messiah returned 
to reign with strength by blessing of fake Christ 
after snatching prize of the Golden Bough. 

All tyrants who climb pinnacle of power, 
Hitler, Stalin, Hussein, Gaddafi, and more, 
fall from Heaven with spectacular disgrace, 
and tumble into waste land of history 
to rot with head of Ozymandias, 
which preserves progress of democracy.