Reward Success With Shame

Reward Success With Shame
© Surazeus
2026 01 05

Cathedral blanked by immaculate light 
fades into shadows of murmuring waves 
sealed by thoughtless insignias of love 
to highlight weird brokenness of this world 
which no existing savior would dare heal 
by striding against surging tides of change. 

Marvelous strangeness, angels paint on masks 
worn by humans famous on stage of power, 
radiates from laughing clock of random fate 
which no arrogant man can force to change, 
though fools attempt to calculate its path 
by acting boldly against global laws. 

Each sparrow that falls where sad flowers bloom 
considers features of the fractured face 
that smiles behind ice mirror of the sky 
where each conscious human alive on Earth 
perceives their thoughts reflected in its code 
defined by broken rainbows of the sea. 

Our nation that mushrooms from rotting gods 
erects grand monuments to misery 
that celebrate struggles of the common folk 
who pay their bills with empty promises 
expressed by crippled mouth of human dreams 
based in sacrificial halls of state pride. 

Blind ghosts of cardinals with trembling hands 
haunt bank vaults that shimmer with jars of oil 
bleeding from sterile mountains of despair 
to fuel conceptual engines of our hearts 
though we still kneel before idol of Thor 
whose hammer splinters shale of bubbling wells. 

Thirsty angels gather in church of steel 
and sing anthem to beautiful oil wells 
that fuel the dream machine of global fame 
where mortals play gods on the silver screen 
with eloquent corruption of hot air 
based on superstitions of stolen wealth. 

Communal dream of fake America, 
contrived by natural selection of gods, 
includes diverse identities of power 
who fight for access to the Ivory Tower, 
for someone always plays King of the Game, 
commissioned to reward success with shame. 

Reborn from failure as the global demon 
who rules the world from the Garden of Eden, 
I wear mask of every human on Earth 
because we live by one firm principle, 
that we live as we will, if we harm none, 
though some fool always tries to seize control.