Since Love Survives All
© Surazeus
2025 07 15

We must love one another, though we die,
I hear the mordant oak-tree wizard cry,
for even love is not stronger than death
just because two statues in a cold stone church
hold hands for six hundred years of fierce wars,
yet love survives all our vicissitudes.

This naked passion from sharp tender shock,
that reveals instinctual capacity
for humans to ignite new flames of love
each time we face terrible circumstance,
tears mask of irony off our love-pulsing soul
so we lie exposed to self-mockery.

Mature sophistication of contempt
through ambiguity of earnestness
shields hearts against ecstatic utterance
with barbed irony of moral respect
which we erect around vulnerable minds
to erase consolatory shame of hope.

Though bitter men with guns of mindless rage
rampage across the landscape of our faith,
arresting innocent people they deem
threats to their weakly false authority,
our love for people living in this land
gives our hearts strength to fight their tyranny.

Though we are all strangers in this strange land,
immigrating from many different lands,
where blood-bound nations unify for strength,
we share one basic principle of faith
that every person living on this globe
has equal rights to liberty and justice.

They try to crush our knowledge institutes
to destroy our world view of measured truth,
for ignorant people are easy to rule,
but we share wisdom our forefathers gleaned
to compose new scripture of global truth
that guides our creative progress with facts.

By wielding sword of truth with fearless faith
that love conquers all arrogant contempt
we find ambiguous courage to defend
rights of every human on spinning Earth
to live free from exploitation of greed
as we build Garden of Eden for all.

We must love one another, though we die,
expressing intense energy of hope
because we create, rather than destroy,
garden of fruit where every human being
lives free to pursue their creative dream,
since love survives all our vicissitudes.

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Orpheus drinks beer with Larkin and Auden as they discuss recurrent rise of fascist thugs who try to exert power of tyranny to exploit the people for their personal gain out of fear of love.

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