Chains Of Selfish Greed

Chains Of Selfish Greed
© Surazeus
2025 04 30

Bewildered and spellbound by striking clocks, 
young woman, wearing fallen-angel wings, 
flings fake medallion of the Lonely God 
on pile of trash in alley of grand greed 
to prove she loves the willow-warbler more 
than the clown crucified on the phone pole. 

Assured she might, with shocking score of fate, 
prise out of hope clear insight into love, 
sad Stella hides new mask of mirth in purse 
made from skin of the silver wolf who knows 
why she is nervous as the graceful deer 
who clatters hoofs in cathedral of glass. 

Yet when she lays on altar forged from gems 
fresh lilies plucked from world obscurity, 
tall Stella dares peer up at Face of God, 
carved from marble into idol of faith, 
that shines with aura beamed in rainbow rings, 
to see if he can see into her heart. 

Still capable of managing with spells 
unending cosmic process of rebirth, 
Faceless Ungod who reads thoughts of her heart 
obscures unnatural light of human brains 
with blazing wings of wordless arrogance 
because he walks on water of the mind. 

Drinking ambrosia from the Holy Grail, 
brewed by the one-eyed witch of Avalon, 
sly Stella boasts ancestry of her soul 
while rearranging puzzle of events 
that would reveal in coded prophecy 
who soon will overthrow the tyrant king. 

For eighty years ago on this dire day 
grim Adolf, hiding in cave of the wolf, 
fired bullet of justice into his brain 
to end disgraceful tyranny of greed 
that cleansed the world with his blood-sacrifice 
as demigod who roared with dragon voice. 

Then fifty years ago on this dire day 
fierce dragon of the mountain, Lac Long Quan, 
drove cruel invaders from streets of Saigon 
to free the ancient land of Vietnam 
so Au Co may walk across war-torn hills 
and bless her children with baskets of fruit. 

Unbound from chains of selfish greed at last, 
wise Stella finds Prometheus by the lake 
where they consider state of world affairs, 
discussing how to build new global state 
where every person living on this Earth 
lives through liberty and justice for all.