Great American Tree

Great American Tree
© Surazeus
2025 08 31

Harsh reality of this changing world 
never matches ideal state we dream of, 
yet I hold high bright lamp of that ideal 
as guide to light my way through endless maze 
in bold courageous quest to change the world 
so we live well through peace of liberty. 

Based on grand concept of the ideal state 
designed with equality to enhance 
justice through truth as the American Way, 
I strive to live up to those principles, 
though greedy people grasping to gain power 
sully our reputation with vile deeds. 

All human beings who live on this broad land 
across vast scape from sea to shining sea, 
regardless of their gender, race, or creed, 
possess inalienable rights at birth, 
whether in her nest, or across the sea, 
to live in freedom from any control. 

We confirm innocent state of our soul 
through conscious discipline of self-control 
within attentive bounds of legal force 
to live as we will with creative hope 
as long as we cause other souls no harm 
when we create good instead of destroy. 

Grand vision of our American Way 
presents progressive process of creation 
through conservative adjustment of action 
to produce food and goods we sell in stores 
with capital investment for production 
then social distribution to all who need. 

When Adam needs tools and seeds to grow crops 
expanding scope for the Garden of Eden, 
he climbs ziggurat of Heaven at dawn 
to ask God for investment of gold coins 
as loan so he can produce crop of wheat 
in fields fertilized by milk-flowing cows. 

Adam and Eve tend crops and fruit-tree groves 
while Lucifer, the finance minister, 
scribe son of the priest, who worked his way up, 
contends with son of God, the crown prince Jesus, 
to rule the kingdom when the old man dies, 
tempting farmers to vote for him as God. 

The Garden of Eden, in land of Sumer, 
enclosed by sturdy walls of paradise, 
which I constructed with my bleeding hands 
to protect my wife and children from harm, 
expanding far the past six thousand years, 
blooms now as the Great American Tree.