Church Of Money
© Surazeus
2025 04 03

Near the end of the way things always were,
were gather our memories in suitcases
and walk together on the signless road,
then stop beside the river of the dead
and build new homes from fantasy of Heaven
without addresses on the map of fate.

Loud voices among oaks, eager to prove
goodness motivates people to live well
in psychic harmony with birds and bees,
alert the wary to the trickster scam
thieves disguised as ministers of the church
employ to trap our bodies on their farms.

Enormous towers of glass windows sulk
unamused at how the stock market falls
in downward spiral of psychotic faith
in glorious rightness of capital gains
since everything we make with hungry hands
increases in value till the end of time.

Entranced on carousel of profit gained
with each aggressive spin around desire,
we blow the horn for our superior way
that cracks the fragile walls of paradise
which crumble into coins no one will trade
while gambling for the future of mankind.

Yet lonely trees on roadless hills of faith
contrive to uncurl roots of righteousness
that crack foundations of corporate clans
so Church of Money collapses at dawn
that leaves the faithful members of the cult
struggling to survive in menial jobs.

Heads sheltered from the blazing sun of greed,
migrants who journeyed across the waste land
pick fruits and vegetables in fields of song
till secret agents based in Church of Money
deport farm workers to gang-controlled towns
that leaves grocery-store shelves empty of food.

Blueprints drawn by the social architect
hang ignored on public library walls
now locked against young scholars eager to learn
engineering design of piston engines
which power our food-production machine
till greed destroys its global operation.

When new world order of the shining star
replaces institutions of the past,
every person in the chess game of power
decides to swerve from divine-sanctioned fate
and film in ruins of America
weird reality show called Church of Money.

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Orpheus directs the reality television show Church of Money where the Traitor and the Thief destroy government agencies that support the People.

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