Since Love Survives All

Since Love Survives All
© Surazeus
2025 07 15

We must love one another, though we die, 
I hear the mordant oak-tree wizard cry, 
for even love is not stronger than death 
just because two statues in a cold stone church 
hold hands for six hundred years of fierce wars, 
yet love survives all our vicissitudes. 

This naked passion from sharp tender shock, 
that reveals instinctual capacity 
for humans to ignite new flames of love 
each time we face terrible circumstance, 
tears mask of irony off our love-pulsing soul 
so we lie exposed to self-mockery. 

Mature sophistication of contempt 
through ambiguity of earnestness 
shields hearts against ecstatic utterance 
with barbed irony of moral respect 
which we erect around vulnerable minds 
to erase consolatory shame of hope. 

Though bitter men with guns of mindless rage 
rampage across the landscape of our faith, 
arresting innocent people they deem 
threats to their weakly false authority, 
our love for people living in this land 
gives our hearts strength to fight their tyranny. 

Though we are all strangers in this strange land, 
immigrating from many different lands, 
where blood-bound nations unify for strength, 
we share one basic principle of faith 
that every person living on this globe 
has equal rights to liberty and justice. 

They try to crush our knowledge institutes 
to destroy our world view of measured truth, 
for ignorant people are easy to rule, 
but we share wisdom our forefathers gleaned 
to compose new scripture of global truth 
that guides our creative progress with facts. 

By wielding sword of truth with fearless faith 
that love conquers all arrogant contempt 
we find ambiguous courage to defend 
rights of every human on spinning Earth 
to live free from exploitation of greed 
as we build Garden of Eden for all. 

We must love one another, though we die, 
expressing intense energy of hope 
because we create, rather than destroy, 
garden of fruit where every human being 
lives free to pursue their creative dream, 
since love survives all our vicissitudes.