Junkyard Of Religious Faith
© Surazeus
2025 05 08

Too often I have to remind myself
that non-0rganic objects have no soul
because my empathetic mind projects
sense of consciousness onto cars and things,
imagining with glow of jovial glee
that they are happy when I use them well.

The wrecked car I drove for twenty-four years
lurks now in twisted agony of pain
among other wrecked cars in muddy field,
so I almost cry with sad aching heart
to see it broken and abandoned so,
though I know well that no machine can feel.

With sly grin of melancholy amusement
I imagine angel soul of my car
spreading white swan wings of divine faith,
and gliding up into Realm of Ideas
to drive eternal concept of the Road
as eternal concept of the Sedan.

When I throw away the old frying pan
that I had used to cook three thousand meals
of scrambled eggs, hash browns, and sausages,
I pause one moment with sharp twinge of guilt
to see it gaze at me with forlorn eyes
like some abandoned puppy in the woods.

Tangled in domestic quietude
of melancholy sorrow for lost things,
I decide that I will not change my life,
nor learn some lesson from epiphany
that I project emotions of my heart
on inanimate objects with no minds.

The moral values of social respect,
which animate how I perform my role,
remain intact despite intense attacks
by fearful minions who seek to oppress
my free spirit with bitter thought control
by breaking my sense of reality.

Because I employ science-based techniques
to cultivate theories that describe truth,
which I expand as I analyze facts,
my mind can perceive what is real or not,
so I quote formulas of verbal codes
describing nature of reality.

When people with no empathy attempt
to assert control over how I live,
I see them like the wrecked car of despair
lurking in junkyard of religious faith,
and turn away to leave them lost in fear
since they will never follow light I bear.

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Orpheus takes insurance money from his wrecked car and buys a new car which seems to glow with pleasure as he drives it on the road of social achievement.

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