Chains Of Selfish Greed
© Surazeus
2025 04 30

Bewildered and spellbound by striking clocks,
young woman, wearing fallen-angel wings,
flings fake medallion of the Lonely God
on pile of trash in alley of grand greed
to prove she loves the willow-warbler more
than the clown crucified on the phone pole.

Assured she might, with shocking score of fate,
prise out of hope clear insight into love,
sad Stella hides new mask of mirth in purse
made from skin of the silver wolf who knows
why she is nervous as the graceful deer
who clatters hoofs in cathedral of glass.

Yet when she lays on altar forged from gems
fresh lilies plucked from world obscurity,
tall Stella dares peer up at Face of God,
carved from marble into idol of faith,
that shines with aura beamed in rainbow rings,
to see if he can see into her heart.

Still capable of managing with spells
unending cosmic process of rebirth,
Faceless Ungod who reads thoughts of her heart
obscures unnatural light of human brains
with blazing wings of wordless arrogance
because he walks on water of the mind.

Drinking ambrosia from the Holy Grail,
brewed by the one-eyed witch of Avalon,
sly Stella boasts ancestry of her soul
while rearranging puzzle of events
that would reveal in coded prophecy
who soon will overthrow the tyrant king.

For eighty years ago on this dire day
grim Adolf, hiding in cave of the wolf,
fired bullet of justice into his brain
to end disgraceful tyranny of greed
that cleansed the world with his blood-sacrifice
as demigod who roared with dragon voice.

Then fifty years ago on this dire day
fierce dragon of the mountain, Lac Long Quan,
drove cruel invaders from streets of Saigon
to free the ancient land of Vietnam
so Au Co may walk across war-torn hills
and bless her children with baskets of fruit.

Unbound from chains of selfish greed at last,
wise Stella finds Prometheus by the lake
where they consider state of world affairs,
discussing how to build new global state
where every person living on this Earth
lives through liberty and justice for all.

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Orpheus finds Stella fixing the universal clock to give her instrument of irony so she can rewind fortune of the global state.

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