Sacrifice For Moral Code
© Surazeus
2026 08 20

Because the gift of prophecy demands
sacrifice of treasure we value most,
I replicate with pristine character
mask of my mundane personality
so I become wise scapegoat for the world
that guides attention of creative care.

To die as sacrifice for moral code,
contrived to manage gestures of concern
that channels guilt of selfish procurement,
I play role of fate-wounded sufferer
who struggles bravely calm to overcome
mental challenges through resilience.

Heap all your bitter sorrows on my head
when you expose my culpability
presenting efforts to master deep flaws
through bright deception you accepted well
as proof that fragile humans with bold hearts
may transcend limitations of our souls.

Through my fantastic tale of daring feats,
which I present as honest narrative
of hard-won triumph over weaknesses,
you offer rewards for accomplishments
that prove all people willing to work hard
have strength to bolster status of their fate.

Yet heights achieved through too aggressive game
thrust fragile sense of victory beyond base
adjusted for safe balance of the heart,
therefore the higher we rise through hard work
the farther from earned merits we may fall
and crash so hard we shatter wordlessly.

Sharp shards of my integral sense of self,
scattered far across fraught landscape of pride,
fail to hope-activate magnetic coherence
for vital principles of framed insight
to reassemble mask of my true self
so I become sly thief you think I am.

Alone in gloom of my besieged framework,
without truth-binding creed that hard work pays
social dividends of accepted prize,
I question nature of essential faith
composing public person I perform
outside containment of my stale success.

Failure to focus fractured facts of fate
within well-ordered system of respect
causes my soul disperse in mocking wind
so I sink deep into bottomless abyss
and vanish from theater of false pride
in sacrifice that prophesies your doom.

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Orpheus finds the young professor dead in his home after he was hounded by hordes of accusers for faking his achievements of social success.

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