Life No God Designed
© Surazeus
2025 12 30

If we expand from cities of our grief
and float above confusing maze of sorrows,
we may conceive compassionate relief,
entangled taut in vain hopes of tomorrows
where we must face the selves we leave behind
in this meaningless life no god designed.

Strange holiday songs our souls harmonize
may resonate with wings of migrant sparrows
who flock with lonely souls in fractured skies
above grim pumpkins in rain-wet wheelbarrows
so we must survive war by acting kind
in this bellicose life no god designed.

Though we no longer gather in town squares
to right old wrongs with heart-enchanting carols
we long to find old friends at country fairs
to brew friend-juice from apples in cracked barrels
we drink to maintain social ties that bind
in this perilous life no god designed.

Through days we lose from wounded innocence
we help each other overcome harsh perils
in bold defiance of cruel arrogance
from visions we perceive in shining beryls
that highlight baneful futures of mankind
in this haphazard life no god designed.

With arbitrary chance of random fate
I fly to opposite side of the world
where I discover my spiritual mate
whose passion wakes my nascent cosmic herald
who writes scripture that cannot be enshrined
in this creative life no god designed.

Awake in progress of chronology,
I find my secret spirit newly laureled
through twisted logic of theology
that measures how our brain networks are whorled
from which fabled nationalist myths unwind
in this ambitious life no god designed.

We gather in grand temple on the hill
to share communal feast of frantic wisdom
that balances state duty with free will
which reprograms our global social system
where each person plays role their heart assigned
in this productive life no god designed.

Driving hungry cars on highways of hope,
we work hard to transcend communal thralldom
through religions that teach us how to cope
with faceless slavery in the global kingdom
till we express desires of our own mind
in this flexible life no god designed.

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Orpheus designs new lifestyle to maximize conceptual potential of creative attention to manageable disasters of global consequence.

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