God We Strive To Be

God We Strive To Be
© Surazeus
2026 09 19

Now is the hour to readjust my brain 
so I perceive electric soul of time 
that laughs with shimmer of the waterfall 
about sad suffering of the human soul 
who kneels and prays to empty sky of blue 
at sudden sorrow of the swirling snow. 

I wonder if my mother is alive, 
safe in walled haven of her wounded heart, 
because I find words scattered on the floor 
that she was just arranging with her mind 
in ever-changing puzzle of false faith 
defined by strangest questions children ask. 

Through random splats of red paint on the wall, 
which accidentally form math formulas 
our brains employ to calculate how far 
we wander lost in wilderness of lies, 
my eyes assert new meaning of old truth 
by weaving constellations from bright tears. 

Now that the long-established way of things, 
that formed foundation of our politics 
collapses into crimes of haughty pride, 
we gather in large crowd of shocked surprise 
to reassert faith in grand principles 
that govern how we should cooperate. 

Or else time may unclock our firm beliefs 
that we held sacred since the dawn of time 
at slow unravelling of solemn scenes 
when wingless angels wearing jeweled crowns 
shall deconstruct assumptions we hold dear 
to prove that ocean waves know how hearts feel. 

Dispersed by humble wind of bitter fame, 
our tight-knit tribe of honest carpenters 
sails ships of sorrow to the Promised Land 
where we build empire of the nuclear bomb 
that causes lizard of the sunless sea 
to rise as Godzilla, new god of Earth. 

Each Sunday at flash of the rising sun 
we gather on the ocean shore of faith 
to sing hymns to fierce monster of the deep 
till hungry dinosaur evolves its form 
to clucking chicken that provides fresh eggs 
we eat for breakfast with orange juice and toast. 

If I succeed in program of respect 
to readjust perception of my brain, 
I may see face of God in silver clouds 
that glimmer with divine agility 
which emanates from every human heart 
so we become the God we strive to be.