Perfect Puzzle Of Power
© Surazeus
2025 07 25

Discovered to be assassin of lies,
the lonely old man with snake-tangled hair
lounges in front of the national bank
and charges credit cards to prophesy
which stocks yield the most lucrative returns,
then sleeps behind the library with ghosts.

His demons dance around him in dawn light
to reveal strange secrets of the human heart
so he knows how each person will perform
when faced with the paradoxical choice
because we must sacrifice what we love
to gain the power of wealth to succeed.

The red traffic light flashing at midnight
becomes eye of the dragon in his heart
who glares with fierce ambition of the fool
to rule the world of churning factories
with passive-aggressive mind games of fear
till wind scatters perfect puzzle of power.

The dead cicada on bay-window screen
displays deceptive prowess of the tyrant
who rules with rage based on terror of death
by gas-lighting the people with dire threats
that forces them to bow down to his will
till they rise up and revolt against hate.

Bright sun of our American Empire
fades in the west from abject tyranny
so homeless wanderers of troubling times
occupy abandoned cathedrals of hope
to build new coalition of the damned
for war against God in tower of gold.

God is idea of political power
embodied by the angry mortal man
who strives against currents of history
then surfs on waves of popularity
to fight against opposing force of will
that chains the hands of creativity.

Observing marble torso of Apollo
that glows with ripening fruit of true power,
the lonely old man with snake-tangled hair
decides he has no need to change his life
since he embodies divine energy
that flares bright with procreation of faith.

The evil tyrant who grasps at control
with greed-weakened gestures of vanity
destroys base at illusion of his power
when we confirm our souls with self-control
by asserting liberty through the law
that programs our perfect puzzle of power.

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Orpheus documents the autumn the patriarch who declares himself dictator of the world for life as he stumbles half-blind in the endless labyrinth of false political power.

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