Life As Hungry Savages
© Surazeus
2025 03 28

Dozing on the back porch in the warm sun,
I contemplate red history of the gun
that toppled empires of the sword and horse
and fueled mankind on faster-engined course,
so now we race to control every isle
while attending state feasts with graceful style.

The fallen airplane floats on ocean waves
just offshore from the secret cliffside caves
where our ancestors first drew images
to transcend life as hungry savages,
so Icarus spreads his wings without faith
and soars among clouds with the mindless wraith.

His mother calls him from the tower porch,
then wanders in the night with flaming torch
to find where he has fallen from the sky
so she can ask the bitter devil why
he dares rebel against the tyrant king
who shoots any angel who tries to sing.

Kneeling in dust before the pyramid
where Jupiter keeps stolen treasure hid,
Lucifer packs powder in metal pipe
then aims rifle to kill God Archetype
who decrees he owns both body and soul
of every human he assigns state role.

Roused from my slumber in the warm noon sun,
I grumble at slaughter caused by the gun
the past five hundred years of holy wars
that gangs of men fight to control food stores
as we transform castles into glass banks
and horses mutate into brutal tanks.

Glancing upward at glowing clouds of fate,
I search blank space for ministers of hate
who rampage now through halls of government
to pilfer treasures of entitlement
that shatters sense of safety we all share
in system we had built that shows we care.

Dismissing tragic events of this age,
caused by the greedy vampire on world stage,
King Midas shouts that he will rule the world
while citizens pray for the cosmic herald
to solve our crisis with respectful law
enforced by wisdom of brave Onatah.

Illusion of power enforced by guns
dissolves at radiance of our freedom songs
so we rise up from lethargy of fear
and march against the thieving puppeteer
to free America from tyranny
and build stronger global democracy.

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Orpheus joins Icarus and Lucifer in their march for democracy to oppose the dictator and the vampire who are stealing our souls.

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