Ideal God Of Joy
© Surazeus
2026 08 17

Through time-expanding laughter of my heart
I redesign perspective of my brain
to frame traumatic events of despair
as opportunities to learn and grow
while I strive with encouragement of faith
to transcend limitations of the self.

Bright light of this brave proverb blinds my eyes
so I cannot perceive progressive way
to maintain balance over shifting sands,
so I shade straight attention of my heart
with cautious code that helps me better see
road I need to take through shadow of fear.

I ponder weirdness of reverse effect
that proves through success of daily routines
how this much more cynical attitude,
that death will dismember my fragile soul,
guides my way around brutish obstacles
better than faith in providence of God.

What does not kill me tends to injure me
instead of filling me with noble strength,
yet cautious attention to dangerous threats
provides sharp wit to analyze landscape
cluttered with soul-consuming traps of pain,
so I can navigate to safer ground.

This principle, that fear increases sight
so grim despair beams soul-liberating light
as guiding star that helps me evade death,
seems to contradict creed of piety
that commands I attend events with faith
in some faceless God that glows in the sky.

All my ancestors once lived long enough
through cautious attention to reality
to generate new life before they died,
so sharp-eyed vigilance of prudent care,
which they programmed into my psychic genes,
still dictates how I decide to proceed.

Though techniques of survival we accrue
through countless generations of rebirth
provide complex algorithms of insight,
our progress to transcend frail human state
seems to retard evolutionary growth
so few attain divine enlightenment.

I need no name or complex tale of growth
depicting process of cause and effect
for me to moralize in mental code
spirit-expanding scope of consciousness
enhancing how my mind perceives this world
as I grow into ideal God of Joy.

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Orpheus presents Zeus as ideal god of joy through hymns of praise he sings to crowd of farmers and craftsmen gathered in the temple of feast at sunset.

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