Contrived By Fortune

Contrived By Fortune
© Surazeus
2025 03 03

If leaves cover my invisible grave 
with brutal silence that erases love, 
silver chickadees will break free from ice 
till arrogant ghosts call for global truce, 
yet children no longer play hide and seek 
in secret tree forts fathers never make. 

Electric ruler measures silent flow 
between emotionless masks people wear 
because devils teach angels how to fly, 
anticipating success of world war 
started by the traitor and the mind thief 
to tax any person who tries to laugh. 

Since no one can find my grave anymore 
I will be happy to steal their new car 
so I can journey to the Promised Land 
with Stone of Sisyphus as contract bond 
designed to smash gold idol with clay feet 
while Minerva plays the cracked crystal flute. 

If you dig deep enough in tangled code, 
that programs how you see the changing world, 
you might perceive idea for each form 
that composes state of the perfect farm 
based on stewardship over cows and wheat 
designed well by the social architect. 

Each special person ever born on Earth 
by random chance of fate from humble mirth 
embodies features through genetic test 
arranged to maximize productive quest 
contrived by fortune to generate life 
long enough to breed till undone by strife. 

Nearly successful at building from scratch 
global religion of conceptual faith, 
I race to Heaven with enjambing clutch 
accelerating engine through the wraith 
to trash security programs of wealth 
for the poor to thrive based on clever stealth. 

War twists hearts of men into mindless wolves 
who cause more problems than charity solves 
with spiteful nonchalance of hungry hope 
because I still wear my Superman cape 
while bearing Flag of Liberty to fight 
fascists who think they can rule us with fright. 

We hide our memories in poetry books 
that no one ever reads but hotel cooks 
who aspire to heal the soul with good food 
which depends on divine robotic mood 
exuded by the crownless jester king 
who jokes to kill us if we fail to sing.