Choosing Our Own Fate
© Surazeus
2025 05 21

I try to focus on the little things
adjusted carefully in each glass case
in the Great American Museum
of Domestic Tranquility to showcase
my privileged place in story of our state
defined by the random choices of fate.

While eating orange I stole from Tree of Life,
I lounge in park among wind-rustled leaves
beneath tall statue of William the Silent
to honor independence of the mind
from all controlling tyrants of the state
who dare think they can legislate our fate.

I mean to tell about my life at home
with solemn voice of the brave mocking bird,
but my heart sprouts wings and will tend to roam
across the ancient landscape of the Earth
where people fight to establish the state
so they can pretend they control their fate.

The fact that I am related to both
General Robert Edward Lee and John Brown
defines ambiguous nature of being
programming cultural code of my mind
which operates how I function in my state
though I swim against empire tides of fate.

If I analyze my relationships
with my family through quaint fairy tales
I might present in well-masked characters
ancient forces of social theater
which form foundation of our global state
while I perform roles that defy my fate.

Or I could satirize with timeless gods
contemporary leaders of vast nations
who wrestle that angel whom Israel fought
to balance freedom of the individual
with public interest of the faceless state
by enforcing laws that equalize fate.

Though I attempt to fictionalize my life
in tradition of college writers workshops,
instead I sing about global events
in tradition of wandering troubadours
to record chronicles of the world state
which moralize weird principles of fate.

This face-mask from the ancient gallery,
I wear while chanting arcane prophecies,
reflects the psychic mind of Everyman
through mirror of the television screen
to rationalize blind functions of the state
that we enforce by choosing our own fate.

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