Next World War
© Surazeus
2025 03 28

We may survive the next world war, or not,
with cheerful laughter of the Argonaut
who cancels quest to steal the Golden Fleece
in vain attempt to establish world peace
by claiming every land on Earth is his
because he always wins the puzzling quiz.

He wants to build new home in vale of tears
to manage school of crazy puppeteers
by teaching them to scam the populace
with threat from rolling stone of Sisyphus,
but he gets lost in forest of the clown
where Gretel marries him with mindcuff crown.

Still staring in the mirror of his soul
for twenty years without his secret goal,
he wonders who defines the right from wrong
besides the Valkyrie with tragic song
who outshines everyone on the world stage
though she got trapped by fame in her gold cage.

Elected captain to steer Ship of State,
after Midas wrecks it with bitter hate,
the Argonaut who hides his secret name
writes new constitution for the world game
so everyone who plays life by the rules
can create beauty with conceptual tools.

Since we hope to survive the next world war
with shadow of our faith in global lore,
though traitorous thieves destroy our world view,
we work together when the ingenue
performs her role as savior of the world
as prophesied by the mad cosmic herald.

As incarnation of brave Liberty,
who wields Book and Lamp of democracy,
Minerva rides the white horse of our hope
with grand ontology beyond our scope
to build from ruins of America
nation of justice called Zarathia.

Displaced from homes we lived in many years,
and fired unfairly from fruitful careers,
we follow Moses through the wilderness
across the rusty bridge of aimlessness
to surround castle where the tyrant hides
with treasures he stole from our psychic guides.

Though Midas steals everything we hold dear,
attempting to divide us with fake fear,
we smash his idol with its feet of clay
when Sisyphus arrives with spells to pray,
so we will survive world war of his greed
and regrow Tree of Life with honest seed.

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Orpheus salvages the ancient Argo, restoring it with a whole new set of planks, and displays it in the Zarathian Museum of Natural History.

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