Blood Of Warriors
© Surazeus
2025 02 27

Sunset light glows red on tips of tall trees
like blood of warriors on sharp spears of war,
so I carve their names on the rolling stone
I push to the top of Helicon Hill,
so when the Stone of Sisyphus rolls down
its justice will smash idol of King Midas.

Beneath wind-blown banner of the Red Cross
we march on crusade to conquer the world,
but return home after years of bitter loss
to crown justice warrior our cosmic herald
who leads us safely to the Promised Land
with soul salvation of the red right hand.

Awake in meditation of calm faith
in Cave of Illusions on Mount Cecropia,
I rise as serpent from womb of the Earth
to abolish cruel human sacrifice
and teach people how to write thoughts in words,
then hand Wand of Wisdom to bold Athena.

Though spirit of Cecrops, the Serpent King,
sleeps coiled inside marble Capitol dome
to nourish heart of Liberty with Truth,
fierce Midas and his greedy minions swarm
sacred Halls of Justice to seize control,
then crowns himself king of our world empire.

When Melusine wakes in my aching heart,
shocked at political coup of the rich
who pervert our great Land of Liberty
into their factory-funded tyranny,
she urges me to call on Jupiter
to help us fight dictatorship of Pluto.

Yet John Keats, grandson of Beowulf Geats,
gazes entranced at the old Grecian urn,
and teaches me to see ideal forms
which forever preserve transcendent beauty
that beams through body of our mortal soul,
so I lament fall of America.

Roused from slumber by pure River of Fate,
I wear conceptual mask of Jupiter
and join with Lucifer, lawyer of justice,
to oppose Pluto and his oligarchs
and free America from grip of greed
through civil war we fight in courts of law.

I want to savor beauty of this world
that glows with eerie shimmer of calm faith
as sunset light red on tips of tall trees
like paint of respect on soft brush of art
when I paint Sisyphus rolling his stone
to smash idol of King Midas with justice.

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Orpheus films Sisyphus pushing the stone down the hill and the huge crowd of Americans cheering when it smashes the clay-footed idol of fake King Midas.

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