New Country Of The Free

New Country Of The Free
© Surazeus
2025 01 20

If walls of all our institutions crack 
from constant earthquakes of world social change, 
the Nowhere might extinguish our vain dreams 
and hurl us surprised on the signless road 
where we may wander across the waste land, 
striving to build new country of the free. 

Though this country is composed of its land, 
mountains of fear and valleys of joy, 
deserts of sorrow and plains of desire, 
the people who walk its landscape of dreams 
emanate spirit of its timeless faith, 
so the people are the country alive. 

When the rich, afraid of equality, 
erect walls of hate to build paradise 
excluding millions of the desperate poor 
from opportunities to live content, 
we become our own country of the lost, 
fighting for our right to breathe the fresh air. 

We create our homeland from broken hearts 
by sharing fruit we steal from Tree of Knowledge, 
inventing new prayers when the countless stars 
bleed from our flag to fill the empty sky 
with tears of children searching for their hopes 
stolen by cruel god on the Golden Bull. 

We populate our new-named country vale 
with refugees from bankrupt businesses 
and neighborhoods erased by bombs of greed 
to build new homes from our ancestral bones 
that beam with holy light of charity 
in cracks that splinter long-locked doors of trust. 

Still the fresh Lotus of Democracy 
blooms from foul mud of suffering we share 
when we transcend boundaries of contempt 
to expand citizenship for all who sing, 
united through vision of Liberty 
who promises justice under fair law. 

Gathered on hilltop of the Humble Fool 
who sacrificed his life to save us all, 
we cast fake statue of the Golden Bull 
from crumbling pedestal of his false pride 
to free the country from the wealthy few 
where everyone tends fruited Tree of Life. 

Because harsh tyranny always requires 
excessive energy to sustain power, 
it burns itself out, consumed by its hate, 
releasing fertile land of honest faith 
for us to build new country of the free 
based on liberty and justice for all.