Free Again For All
© Surazeus
2025 02 20

When I find Godfredus on hill of skulls
beneath the crucified god of despair,
he turns to me with eyes of blazing rage
and laughs in windstorm of coming world war,
"Triumphalism feasts on empty dread!"
then clutches spear half-stuck in heart of god.

When Midas steals the chariot Phaethon crashed,
and swipes the crown of thorns from head of Christ,
he races wheels of blades across the land
to behead loyal angels of Jupiter,
tramples stars-and-stripes flag of Liberty,
then smashes doors to Temple of Saturnus.

Pilfering national treasure of the people
stored safely in the Temple of Saturnus,
Midas claims he is rooting out corruption
while stealing our wealth in front of our eyes,
then mocks us as he takes our gold away
and leaves the treasury empty of our dreams.

Stunned at his brazen theft of our state treasure,
I stand with Janus on the temple porch
who asks me with agony in his voice
when the people will restore this great temple
consumed by fire of oligarchic greed,
then weeps in the vast empty hall of dust.

Strutting into tomb of our Founding Fathers,
greedy Midas boasts from bold arrogance
with triumphalism of empty dread,
then crowns himself King with laurels of Caesar
to scare us with puffed chest full of hot air,
bloviating to hide his terror of death.

Arriving on white horse of honesty,
Minerva rises flag of liberty
with stars and stripes of our democracy
to rally us with encouraging words
so we unite to oppose tyranny
against his oligarchic gang of thieves.

Though central principle of liberty
based on rule of law with justice for all
may seem no longer pole of balanced faith
as state events spiral out of control,
Eagle of America will return
to secure vigor of freedom and truth.

Though dark thunderstorm of civil war brews
from sea to shining sea, above our state
destabilized by tyrants grasping power,
good Liberty and Justice will prevail
when Minerva drives Midas into Hell,
and makes Zarathia free again for all.

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Orpheus finds Geoffrey Hill on Golgotha singing lamentation for the crucified ancestor of all the royal families of Europe.

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