Blood Of Warriors

Blood Of Warriors
© Surazeus
2025 02 27

Sunset light glows red on tips of tall trees 
like blood of warriors on sharp spears of war, 
so I carve their names on the rolling stone 
I push to the top of Helicon Hill, 
so when the Stone of Sisyphus rolls down 
its justice will smash idol of King Midas. 

Beneath wind-blown banner of the Red Cross 
we march on crusade to conquer the world, 
but return home after years of bitter loss 
to crown justice warrior our cosmic herald 
who leads us safely to the Promised Land 
with soul salvation of the red right hand. 

Awake in meditation of calm faith 
in Cave of Illusions on Mount Cecropia, 
I rise as serpent from womb of the Earth 
to abolish cruel human sacrifice 
and teach people how to write thoughts in words, 
then hand Wand of Wisdom to bold Athena. 

Though spirit of Cecrops, the Serpent King, 
sleeps coiled inside marble Capitol dome 
to nourish heart of Liberty with Truth, 
fierce Midas and his greedy minions swarm 
sacred Halls of Justice to seize control, 
then crowns himself king of our world empire. 

When Melusine wakes in my aching heart, 
shocked at political coup of the rich 
who pervert our great Land of Liberty 
into their factory-funded tyranny, 
she urges me to call on Jupiter 
to help us fight dictatorship of Pluto. 

Yet John Keats, grandson of Beowulf Geats, 
gazes entranced at the old Grecian urn, 
and teaches me to see ideal forms 
which forever preserve transcendent beauty 
that beams through body of our mortal soul, 
so I lament fall of America. 

Roused from slumber by pure River of Fate, 
I wear conceptual mask of Jupiter 
and join with Lucifer, lawyer of justice, 
to oppose Pluto and his oligarchs 
and free America from grip of greed 
through civil war we fight in courts of law. 

I want to savor beauty of this world 
that glows with eerie shimmer of calm faith 
as sunset light red on tips of tall trees 
like paint of respect on soft brush of art 
when I paint Sisyphus rolling his stone 
to smash idol of King Midas with justice.