Communal Laws Of Conduct
© Surazeus
2025 11 30

Through absolute simplicity of faith
most people focus on their daily work
to fund courageous strife against harsh cold
so their hearts shine bright in gloom of despair
as nations muddle through another year,
transforming sorrow to commercial gold.

Extracting minerals from heart of the Earth
with desperate hands of earnest agony,
we build enormous factories from steel
to manufacture television gods
who replay roles of Jupiter and Eve
in psychosocial drama of our state.

While Adam and Hera manage the store,
selling graceful lifestyles of magazines
through furnishings for the upper class home,
Phoebus and Kwan Yin deliver the news
about events on television shows
that display noble spirit of our state.

Fixing piston engines of cars and trucks,
Thor keeps commercial machine running well
while his wife Lakshmi works as clinic nurse
providing care for souls with urgent needs
to keep their bodies functioning with love,
so we can live our lives with honest goals.

Because I wear the mask of Lucifer,
which I stole from the ancient gallery,
I enforce communal laws of conduct
to manage interactions of our tribe
that ensure people can do what they will
if actions of their hands may cause no harm.

After Oedipus wins popular vote
he works as Senator in Washington
composing programs for the social state
that provide financial assistance credits
for fathers to earn a fair living wage
and mothers to raise children with brave love.

After Jupiter Alfred Prufrock reigns
one hundred years of solitude in Hell
to transform the waste land to Wonderland,
he lectures at the university
about great art of Michelangelo,
then swims with mermaids in the silver sea.

Descending from Heaven on wings of fire,
Icarus and Michael lead world crusade
to cast King Midas from the Throne of Power,
then Ishtar and Mary, Mothers of Faith,
design new world view of honest respect
as guide for United Nations of Earth.

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