Quick-Winged Sparrow

Quick-Winged Sparrow
© Surazeus
2026 03 28

Quick-winged sparrow of the human soul, 
seen to flit safe from tempest of cold wind 
in fire-warm hall of power where world leaders 
feast on bones of workers in factories, 
lands on head of the self-crowned king of greed 
and prophesies that the proud always fall. 

Our transient human soul, lodged in our flesh 
of warm protection from cruel mindless death, 
comes from no far mysterious realm of light 
on time-transcendent wings of divine love, 
for conscious glow radiates from spongy brain 
as glow of self-aware acuity. 

What seems to wise philosophers to be 
mysterious origin in distant stars 
of our bright consciousness we call our soul, 
which animates our body till we die, 
is local to enclosed sphere of our skull, 
for primal flame of self glows from our brain. 

Our brain provides foundation for the soul 
to bloom from seed of hope as tree of thought, 
nurtured by tears of sorrow our hearts bleed 
with nourishment of harsh experience 
so we learn consequence of every cause 
which we encode in proverbs of insight. 

No matter role each person of this world 
is doomed by play by choices of our fate, 
each individual brain conjures its soul 
from flash of memories in neural net 
that programs we how we perform our one part 
in crowded theater of social power. 

Some men attain heights of authority 
through scenes of chaos from hostile desire 
by organizing variant plans that clash 
with project of inclusive compromise 
to balance opposing forces of hope 
so everyone wins game of give and take. 

Other men grasp at elusive mirage 
of power over minds of other men 
by smashing strict conventions of respect 
through harsh assertion of their fragile will 
in frantic gestures of helpless despair 
hidden behind mask of feeble dominance. 

Quick-winged sparrow of my transient soul, 
that flits with urgent message of world change, 
traverses spiraling maze of dream keys 
to guide my quest of self-empowerment 
so I achieve modest success of faith 
composing epic of enlightenment.