Perfect Puzzle Of Power

Perfect Puzzle Of Power
© Surazeus
2025 07 25

Discovered to be assassin of lies, 
the lonely old man with snake-tangled hair 
lounges in front of the national bank 
and charges credit cards to prophesy 
which stocks yield the most lucrative returns, 
then sleeps behind the library with ghosts. 

His demons dance around him in dawn light 
to reveal strange secrets of the human heart 
so he knows how each person will perform 
when faced with the paradoxical choice 
because we must sacrifice what we love 
to gain the power of wealth to succeed. 

The red traffic light flashing at midnight 
becomes eye of the dragon in his heart 
who glares with fierce ambition of the fool 
to rule the world of churning factories 
with passive-aggressive mind games of fear 
till wind scatters perfect puzzle of power. 

The dead cicada on bay-window screen 
displays deceptive prowess of the tyrant 
who rules with rage based on terror of death 
by gas-lighting the people with dire threats 
that forces them to bow down to his will 
till they rise up and revolt against hate. 

Bright sun of our American Empire 
fades in the west from abject tyranny 
so homeless wanderers of troubling times 
occupy abandoned cathedrals of hope 
to build new coalition of the damned 
for war against God in tower of gold. 

God is idea of political power 
embodied by the angry mortal man 
who strives against currents of history 
then surfs on waves of popularity 
to fight against opposing force of will 
that chains the hands of creativity. 

Observing marble torso of Apollo 
that glows with ripening fruit of true power, 
the lonely old man with snake-tangled hair 
decides he has no need to change his life 
since he embodies divine energy 
that flares bright with procreation of faith. 

The evil tyrant who grasps at control 
with greed-weakened gestures of vanity 
destroys base at illusion of his power 
when we confirm our souls with self-control 
by asserting liberty through the law 
that programs our perfect puzzle of power.