Life No God Designed

Life No God Designed
© Surazeus
2025 12 30

If we expand from cities of our grief 
and float above confusing maze of sorrows, 
we may conceive compassionate relief, 
entangled taut in vain hopes of tomorrows 
where we must face the selves we leave behind 
in this meaningless life no god designed. 

Strange holiday songs our souls harmonize 
may resonate with wings of migrant sparrows 
who flock with lonely souls in fractured skies 
above grim pumpkins in rain-wet wheelbarrows 
so we must survive war by acting kind 
in this bellicose life no god designed. 

Though we no longer gather in town squares 
to right old wrongs with heart-enchanting carols 
we long to find old friends at country fairs 
to brew friend-juice from apples in cracked barrels 
we drink to maintain social ties that bind 
in this perilous life no god designed. 

Through days we lose from wounded innocence 
we help each other overcome harsh perils 
in bold defiance of cruel arrogance 
from visions we perceive in shining beryls 
that highlight baneful futures of mankind 
in this haphazard life no god designed. 

With arbitrary chance of random fate 
I fly to opposite side of the world 
where I discover my spiritual mate 
whose passion wakes my nascent cosmic herald 
who writes scripture that cannot be enshrined 
in this creative life no god designed. 

Awake in progress of chronology, 
I find my secret spirit newly laureled 
through twisted logic of theology 
that measures how our brain networks are whorled 
from which fabled nationalist myths unwind 
in this ambitious life no god designed. 

We gather in grand temple on the hill 
to share communal feast of frantic wisdom 
that balances state duty with free will 
which reprograms our global social system 
where each person plays role their heart assigned 
in this productive life no god designed. 

Driving hungry cars on highways of hope, 
we work hard to transcend communal thralldom
through religions that teach us how to cope 
with faceless slavery in the global kingdom 
till we express desires of our own mind 
in this flexible life no god designed.