People Can Be Good
© Surazeus
2025 08 14

After Plato reveals the ideal Chair,
that vibrates with essence of its true purpose,
I sit on concept of its sturdiness,
then lift angelic quill of timeless truth
to write map of the world in lines of verse
expressing love for weird reality.

Ungrateful ignorance of the cracked mirror
exposes sweet rainwater of despair
that flows with lambent horror of respect
from brute unwillingness of honest men
to criticize deception of the church
in harmony with stillness of the lake.

Secretions of absent thought clutter hope
with pure contamination of concern
ensconced with sinister presence of love
that muzzles frozen smiles of honesty
riveted at parade of overlords
who scatter skulls of gods on marble floors.

Exception to confinement rules reverts
all closing arguments to baseless fear
surprised by boredom of the humble king
who sifts through evidence of brutal crimes
to judge the devil with assertive laws
through occasional whispers of sweet lies.

Harsh hunger of communion with the dead
excels in tentative conclusions formed
by reasonable doubt in windowless rooms
where faceless ghosts riot for better pay
till bud of contingency blooms from graves
through disagreement of fierce gratitude.

False evidence that birds know how to flow
should clarify why invisible hands
veil horrible accident of lost love
with tattered curtain of heavenly hope
despite assurances through martyrdom
that true love shall nullify tedium.

Assurance of redemption, before death
erases sorrow and joy from aching hearts,
encourages every fool to sing hymns
with cunning trial of resourcefulness
that never matches strange alternatives
to purchase wish fulfillment from their god.

Extending upturned palms of clemency,
long empty of our pregnant solitude,
we listen to silence for Word of God
that whispers in leaves of old apple trees
instead of shouting loud in hurricanes
because we believe people can be good.

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Orpheus tears pages of his hymns from the Anthology of Thirty-Third Century Zarathian Poetry.

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