In The Ardent Zone
© Surazeus
2025 04 11

Unnecessary logic of the heart
increases temperature of wordless hope
that renders moot the wonder of respect
which filters anguish from old memories
at rising level of the swirling flood
that leaves us stranded in the ardent zone.

Through civil disobedience of the heart
opposing tyranny of selfish greed,
we dance with laughter in the lightning storm
where ghosts are drifting in the naked hills,
pursuant to the clause in section nine
that maps our journey in the ardent zone.

Trapped by huge trade deficit of the heart,
we struggle to escape doleful mindset
with secret messages of innocence
to people in the future who recall
how we trashed the greatest empire of all
by wrestling terror in the ardent zone.

Downriver from the cave of divine dreams,
where wingless angels plot to rule the world
with policies that benefit the poor,
we build new paradise from apple seeds
to prove we are good enough to exist
as faceless humans in the ardent zone.

Regretting windless arrogance of faith,
the metal horse with fast computer brain
assigns me mission to unmap the world
so no one knows the righteous way to go
down rigid highway of the burning sign
that always guides us in the ardent zone.

Hearts swelling rich with isolated angst,
designed to evade false submissive fluke
with electric engine that measures time
between our hearts still rumbling out of whack
despite intense horsepower of true love,
we greet each other in the ardent zone.

Contrived performance in the theater,
Ishmael designs with money-making scheme,
deceives hard-working people to believe
the state interferes with benevolence
based on self-reliance of the strong man
gone mad for power in the ardent zone.

Though life will break our hearts with clemency,
we protect our bodies from contempt
by eating apples from the Tree of Truth
that we must steal from serpent of the heart
who curates our skulls on library shelves
that record our time in the ardent zone.

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Orpheus conducts tours in the ardent zone for economic refugees who flee collapse of the American Empire.

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