Ruthless Winners Like Me
© Surazeus
2026 06 10

Time has no frantic pace I can discern
that leaves all mortals in cold graves of faith,
so I race headlong toward high peak of fame
in desperate contest to achieve success
above all other losers on this globe
whose skulls crumble to dust beside my own.

Long tedious days crowd endless short years
with daily contests to gather more wealth
than competitors in shadowy woods
who pray to faceless spirit in the clouds
to grant them random luck of generous fate
while I hoard food in cold castle of stone.

Ignoring cries of homeless refugees,
driven from rich lands by laws I decree
that river-nourished woods are mine alone,
granted divine right to gather and hunt
for secret treasures of bountiful Earth,
I lounge in tower with coffers of plunder.

Though hungry hordes of rebellious fools
clamor desperately at gates of my Heaven
with revolutionary fervor of blind rage
that I gain power through law over land
to defeat them in chess game against death,
I sip sweet wine and dine on roast beef steak.

While they beat drums and pipe with Bacchic frenzy
beneath electric horror of the moon,
I strum gold strings of the elegant harp
and chant harmonious hymns of reverence
to praise Lord God whose frank benevolence
has blessed me with wit to pilfer their wealth.

Removed from teeming crowds of vagrant churls
who cry for justice to the empty sky
for infernal judgment against my power,
I fund their passage on mercantile ships
across stormy sea of indifference
to slave on my farms in the colonies.

Ruled by harsh law of the grim wilderness,
that those who are stronger and wiser win
in brutal battle of wits to control
religious narrative of the whole state
based on systemic privilege of wealth,
this world honors ruthless winners like me.

So though our nameless skulls sit side by side
on lightless shelf in cathedral of faith,
as if we are equals in realm of death,
I stamped my name on grand buildings and laws
in legal framework that enforces power
of my descendants to exploit your own.

surazeus.blogspot.com/2026/06/…

Orpheus deconstructs systemic privilege of the patriarchy that provides legal framework for oligarchs to exploit people of America for their own gain.

#Poetry #Poem #Pastoral #Necropastoral #MetaModernism #Transrealism #NewSublimity #NewRomanticism #AmericanDream #Cinemism #Existentialism #Surrealism #NegativeCapability #NewGnosticism #MetaRealism #NewTranscendentalism #Astarism