In The Ardent Zone

In The Ardent Zone
© Surazeus
2025 04 11

Unnecessary logic of the heart 
increases temperature of wordless hope 
that renders moot the wonder of respect 
which filters anguish from old memories 
at rising level of the swirling flood 
that leaves us stranded in the ardent zone. 

Through civil disobedience of the heart 
opposing tyranny of selfish greed, 
we dance with laughter in the lightning storm 
where ghosts are drifting in the naked hills, 
pursuant to the clause in section nine 
that maps our journey in the ardent zone. 

Trapped by huge trade deficit of the heart, 
we struggle to escape doleful mindset 
with secret messages of innocence 
to people in the future who recall 
how we trashed the greatest empire of all 
by wrestling terror in the ardent zone. 

Downriver from the cave of divine dreams, 
where wingless angels plot to rule the world 
with policies that benefit the poor, 
we build new paradise from apple seeds 
to prove we are good enough to exist 
as faceless humans in the ardent zone. 

Regretting windless arrogance of faith, 
the metal horse with fast computer brain 
assigns me mission to unmap the world 
so no one knows the righteous way to go 
down rigid highway of the burning sign 
that always guides us in the ardent zone. 

Hearts swelling rich with isolated angst, 
designed to evade false submissive fluke 
with electric engine that measures time 
between our hearts still rumbling out of whack 
despite intense horsepower of true love, 
we greet each other in the ardent zone. 

Contrived performance in the theater, 
Ishmael designs with money-making scheme, 
deceives hard-working people to believe 
the state interferes with benevolence 
based on self-reliance of the strong man 
gone mad for power in the ardent zone. 

Though life will break our hearts with clemency, 
we protect our bodies from contempt 
by eating apples from the Tree of Truth 
that we must steal from serpent of the heart 
who curates our skulls on library shelves 
that record our time in the ardent zone.