Church Of Money

Church Of Money
© Surazeus
2025 04 03

Near the end of the way things always were, 
were gather our memories in suitcases 
and walk together on the signless road, 
then stop beside the river of the dead 
and build new homes from fantasy of Heaven 
without addresses on the map of fate. 

Loud voices among oaks, eager to prove 
goodness motivates people to live well 
in psychic harmony with birds and bees, 
alert the wary to the trickster scam 
thieves disguised as ministers of the church 
employ to trap our bodies on their farms. 

Enormous towers of glass windows sulk 
unamused at how the stock market falls 
in downward spiral of psychotic faith 
in glorious rightness of capital gains 
since everything we make with hungry hands 
increases in value till the end of time. 

Entranced on carousel of profit gained 
with each aggressive spin around desire, 
we blow the horn for our superior way 
that cracks the fragile walls of paradise 
which crumble into coins no one will trade 
while gambling for the future of mankind. 

Yet lonely trees on roadless hills of faith 
contrive to uncurl roots of righteousness 
that crack foundations of corporate clans 
so Church of Money collapses at dawn 
that leaves the faithful members of the cult 
struggling to survive in menial jobs. 

Heads sheltered from the blazing sun of greed, 
migrants who journeyed across the waste land 
pick fruits and vegetables in fields of song 
till secret agents based in Church of Money 
deport farm workers to gang-controlled towns 
that leaves grocery-store shelves empty of food. 

Blueprints drawn by the social architect 
hang ignored on public library walls 
now locked against young scholars eager to learn 
engineering design of piston engines 
which power our food-production machine 
till greed destroys its global operation. 

When new world order of the shining star 
replaces institutions of the past, 
every person in the chess game of power 
decides to swerve from divine-sanctioned fate 
and film in ruins of America 
weird reality show called Church of Money.