No Castles In America
© Surazeus
2025 06 02

I find glass castles in America
where tyrants and their greedy gangs of thieves
oppress people who work with their hands,
so I build democracy to guard their rights
till oligarchs seize control of our faith
and crown their puppet Emperor of Earth.

Asserting right to exercise free will
to pursue my dream of producing wealth
so every person in my company
thrives through creative force of energy,
I balance private need with public good
to maintain my country through peaceful growth.

Some people want to exploit working people
to keep them ignorant and obedient
through nefarious plot to enslave their dreams
with low pages and no union support
by weakening system of education
that traps them in cycle of poverty.

I want to empower people with knowledge
so they can perform the job they enjoy
working with their hands to design and build,
or working with their minds to transcend fear,
which fuels engine of our economy
so everyone has money to buy goods.

The old chief executive officer
stares at the young man with rebellious eyes
who aims plan of revolution at his heart,
and smiles with hope to calm his trembling rage,
but he shouts, death to tyrannical thieves,
and discharges credit to erase greed.

Striding boldly past tall towers of wealth,
the knight in shining armor climbs stairway
to enter grand cathedral of state power
where he lays his weapon of social faith
before idol of the crucified king
and prays that he performs the Will of Good.

When police break through sanctuary doors
to arrest the man with the red right hand
for terminating power of the king,
he transforms into raven with white wings
and flutters past gangsters with guns of fear
who fire at apparition of despair.

I find no castles in America
where tyrants could assert authority
by claiming they own people and the land,
yet, lurking in castles of stolen wealth,
oligarchs hide from effects of their greed,
imprisoned in fake heaven of their fear.

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Orpheus strums lyre of Mercury and sings legends of when Jupiter rebels against Cronus, when Lucifer rebels against Jupiter, and when Jesus rebels against Lucifer.

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