Reward Success With Shame
© Surazeus
2026 01 05

Cathedral blanked by immaculate light
fades into shadows of murmuring waves
sealed by thoughtless insignias of love
to highlight weird brokenness of this world
which no existing savior would dare heal
by striding against surging tides of change.

Marvelous strangeness, angels paint on masks
worn by humans famous on stage of power,
radiates from laughing clock of random fate
which no arrogant man can force to change,
though fools attempt to calculate its path
by acting boldly against global laws.

Each sparrow that falls where sad flowers bloom
considers features of the fractured face
that smiles behind ice mirror of the sky
where each conscious human alive on Earth
perceives their thoughts reflected in its code
defined by broken rainbows of the sea.

Our nation that mushrooms from rotting gods
erects grand monuments to misery
that celebrate struggles of the common folk
who pay their bills with empty promises
expressed by crippled mouth of human dreams
based in sacrificial halls of state pride.

Blind ghosts of cardinals with trembling hands
haunt bank vaults that shimmer with jars of oil
bleeding from sterile mountains of despair
to fuel conceptual engines of our hearts
though we still kneel before idol of Thor
whose hammer splinters shale of bubbling wells.

Thirsty angels gather in church of steel
and sing anthem to beautiful oil wells
that fuel the dream machine of global fame
where mortals play gods on the silver screen
with eloquent corruption of hot air
based on superstitions of stolen wealth.

Communal dream of fake America,
contrived by natural selection of gods,
includes diverse identities of power
who fight for access to the Ivory Tower,
for someone always plays King of the Game,
commissioned to reward success with shame.

Reborn from failure as the global demon
who rules the world from the Garden of Eden,
I wear mask of every human on Earth
because we live by one firm principle,
that we live as we will, if we harm none,
though some fool always tries to seize control.

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Orpheus seizes control of all government institutions around the world to reward humility with happiness in paradise of apple trees.

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