Misaligned Features Of Fate
© Surazeus
2026 02 25

Cruel as the joke of life sometimes might be
I find strange beauty in weird messiness
that renders landscape of our mental space
crooked with misaligned features of fate
in contrast with delusions of desire
our brains project on what we wish could be.

Peter cocks his head and stares at dark clouds,
then grins as if his argument made sense,
but shrugs and watches boys on grassy field
play football with assertive force of pride
by sprinting with their treasure to the goal
that replays fight of rival towns for wealth.

Just as both teams meet at the scrimmage line
to start another down with standard run,
someone in black jacket runs on the field
and shoots at players with shotgun of rage,
killing the quarterback and several players,
then everyone in the stands starts to scream.

Chaos of people running everywhere
erupts from controlled ritual of observance,
but Peter drops beer can with gleaming eyes,
runs straight through the swirling crowd of scared souls
toward looming shadow of the evil demon
and tackles the shooter with brutal force.

Gripping arms of the shooter with tight fists,
Peter waits till police handcuff his wrists,
then glares at young boy with scar on his face
who growls that the quarterback and his pals
gang-raped his sister and left her for dead,
so God told him to send their souls to Hell.

We cannot take the law in our own hands,
Peter wants to declare with noble voice,
but police take him away in the van
down the dark road while lights flash blue and red,
so he stares stunned at bright blood on the grass
as journalists with cameras call him hero.

Our world is structure of atomic sparks
so actions of our hands, sparked by our will,
construct or destruct the structures of things
through force of energy we gesture forth
when visions of the world inside our brains
moralize the real world our minds perceive.

While guarding Gate of Paradise with law
to attend credentials of characters
requesting entrance to Garden of Eden,
Peter studies passport of the young man
who killed the rapists who abused his sister,
then stamps approved, allowing him to enter.

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Orpheus sings ballad that details revenge of the wronged who apply the moral law of justice based on the Wiccan Rede.

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