Destroyers Of Our World
© Surazeus
2025 03 18

The river always asks me to believe
wild children in the apple groves are gods
who tell each other oracles to prove
murderous bullies will crown their sons kings
and start religions on the holy creed
that they are sent by God to save the world.

I want to study how the rivers work,
analyzing way that spread water flows
from rainfall on mountains, winding round hills,
swelling wider across lush wooded plains,
and merging into vast swirl of the sea,
then evaporates to rise as shining clouds.

I contemplate how rivers on grass plains,
signified by attention of our minds,
function as metaphor that illustrates
slow process of change we humans observe
by noting growth and decay of constructs
that we define through mystery of time.

Adjusting gear in engine of my car,
I drive with flow of cars through urban zone
in gridded maze of name-signified streets,
regulated by flashing traffic lights,
from house to school to library to store
and back again in endless routine loop.

I sense in strict routine of daily life
magic of that motivational spark
in perpetual motion machine of faith
generating more electrical hope
which fuels aggressive progress of my plan
to build foundation for family success.

Celebrities personify our hopes
that shine as outstanding stars in the game
who achieve success through attentive force
of heart-inspiring discipline in work
that slowly builds in small increments
grand palace of political respect.

Yet all I build may vanish from the world
in sudden flash of disastrous misfortune
when opposing factions of social greed
clash over right to exist and perform
role of power to control cash resource
when I wander lost in the twilight zone.

Strange beauty of this empire we create
through constructive functions of daily work
inspires my heart to love our nation-state,
though greedy oligarchs now seize control,
so to oppose destroyers of our world
we unite and march till they shoot us down.

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Orpheus wanders along the river in the valley near Mount Rainier in the Cascade Mountain Range to study how human societies change.

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