Ruthless Winners Like Me

Ruthless Winners Like Me
© Surazeus
2026 06 10

Time has no frantic pace I can discern 
that leaves all mortals in cold graves of faith, 
so I race headlong toward high peak of fame 
in desperate contest to achieve success 
above all other losers on this globe 
whose skulls crumble to dust beside my own. 

Long tedious days crowd endless short years 
with daily contests to gather more wealth 
than competitors in shadowy woods 
who pray to faceless spirit in the clouds 
to grant them random luck of generous fate 
while I hoard food in cold castle of stone. 

Ignoring cries of homeless refugees, 
driven from rich lands by laws I decree 
that river-nourished woods are mine alone, 
granted divine right to gather and hunt 
for secret treasures of bountiful Earth, 
I lounge in tower with coffers of plunder. 

Though hungry hordes of rebellious fools 
clamor desperately at gates of my Heaven 
with revolutionary fervor of blind rage 
that I gain power through law over land 
to defeat them in chess game against death, 
I sip sweet wine and dine on roast beef steak. 

While they beat drums and pipe with Bacchic frenzy 
beneath electric horror of the moon, 
I strum gold strings of the elegant harp 
and chant harmonious hymns of reverence 
to praise Lord God whose frank benevolence 
has blessed me with wit to pilfer their wealth. 

Removed from teeming crowds of vagrant churls 
who cry for justice to the empty sky 
for infernal judgment against my power, 
I fund their passage on mercantile ships 
across stormy sea of indifference 
to slave on my farms in the colonies. 

Ruled by harsh law of the grim wilderness, 
that those who are stronger and wiser win 
in brutal battle of wits to control 
religious narrative of the whole state 
based on systemic privilege of wealth, 
this world honors ruthless winners like me. 

So though our nameless skulls sit side by side 
on lightless shelf in cathedral of faith, 
as if we are equals in realm of death, 
I stamped my name on grand buildings and laws 
in legal framework that enforces power 
of my descendants to exploit your own.