Our Utopian Fantasy

Our Utopian Fantasy
© Surazeus
2026 07 05

Heaven is our Utopian fantasy 
that represents communal town of peace 
where noble principles of honest work 
bind hearts of every person with brave trust 
for all are equal in their privilege 
where no king need enforce justice through law. 

Of all the goddesses who lived on Earth, 
mortal women whose personalities 
radiate through eidolon of their bright souls 
in characters preserved in ancient myths, 
I remember sweet Pinikir the most, 
goddess of the night who knows names of stars. 

Lost in the ancient swirling dust of time, 
wise women who once ruled their garden states, 
Nanaya, Ishara, Allani, Ishtar, 
Hutena, Hutellura, Ashtart, Isis, 
Ninatta, Kulitta, Manzat, and Hat-Hor, 
haunt my weird dreams with star-glow of their souls. 

Each goddess chronicled in ancient myths 
was once some living woman in the flesh 
who managed communal estate of farmers 
from temple perched on high-built ziggurat 
where she administered economy 
to operate food-production machine. 

Since Garden of Eden in lush Sumer 
humans have built cities with sunbaked bricks, 
Ur, Uruk, Eridu, Nippur, Lagash, 
where hierarchies of power develop 
so Goddess of Wisdom administrates 
warriors to protect workers who create. 

I see Gilgamesh, standing on high hill 
in shadow of El, first ruler of one state, 
work to defend rulership of Ishtar 
as guard of the garden where fruit trees bloom, 
but every city men have built from brick 
has vanished into swirling dust of time. 

No city humans build with bleeding hands 
will ever match our boldest fantasy 
as Utopian Heaven of equal rights, 
yet we keep striving to perfect our ways 
through institutions of fair government 
to maintain justice and freedom for all. 

Bright Heaven of communal polity 
that we imagine as Utopia, 
where every person enjoys equal rights, 
presents pure state of civil enterprise 
as blueprint for messy cities of Earth 
to model functions of good government.