No Castles In America

No Castles In America
© Surazeus
2025 06 02

I find glass castles in America 
where tyrants and their greedy gangs of thieves 
oppress people who work with their hands, 
so I build democracy to guard their rights 
till oligarchs seize control of our faith 
and crown their puppet Emperor of Earth. 

Asserting right to exercise free will 
to pursue my dream of producing wealth 
so every person in my company 
thrives through creative force of energy, 
I balance private need with public good 
to maintain my country through peaceful growth. 

Some people want to exploit working people 
to keep them ignorant and obedient 
through nefarious plot to enslave their dreams 
with low pages and no union support 
by weakening system of education 
that traps them in cycle of poverty. 

I want to empower people with knowledge 
so they can perform the job they enjoy 
working with their hands to design and build, 
or working with their minds to transcend fear, 
which fuels engine of our economy 
so everyone has money to buy goods. 

The old chief executive officer 
stares at the young man with rebellious eyes 
who aims plan of revolution at his heart, 
and smiles with hope to calm his trembling rage, 
but he shouts, death to tyrannical thieves, 
and discharges credit to erase greed. 

Striding boldly past tall towers of wealth, 
the knight in shining armor climbs stairway 
to enter grand cathedral of state power 
where he lays his weapon of social faith 
before idol of the crucified king 
and prays that he performs the Will of Good. 

When police break through sanctuary doors 
to arrest the man with the red right hand 
for terminating power of the king, 
he transforms into raven with white wings 
and flutters past gangsters with guns of fear 
who fire at apparition of despair. 

I find no castles in America 
where tyrants could assert authority 
by claiming they own people and the land, 
yet, lurking in castles of stolen wealth, 
oligarchs hide from effects of their greed, 
imprisoned in fake heaven of their fear.