We have bled, we have slaved
Yet a labor fruitless it gave
A once fertile mother deprived of essence
A veritable garden of Eden
Now a husk, ripe for discardment

Billions of futures spent
To feed the privileged few
But the tyrants force no growth
With our blood upon the sands

We shall build a craft for our escape
Forge a salvation for our race
For down here we have nothing left
Only empty space for an escape
Escape!

To breathe life to their accomplishment,
They manned the vessel with knowledge
And the souls to grant vitality
To the cold intergalactic metal beast

While few oppose the restless craft
Forced by a demand,
A final master plan
In eminent need for a surrogate
We build the ark to outlive
The black tide of future
A Future...
Cold...

We shall build a craft for our escape
Forge a salvation for our race
For down here we have nothing left
Only empty promises of an escape
There is a fatal flaw in this system,
Uncontrolled by the composers,
The saboteur hides among our ranks!
Hidden among our ranks...

And then one day it was to take place
Though not the way anyone would have predicted
Not in the form of cataclysmic fire
But the absence of the very essence of its burning force
Dissipate! Across the starry heavens
Cold, as hell...

Sixty million and eight
The lengths of mercy
They go unseen
We witness too late that Light hides a darker shade

Nothing travels across the vast space
Gaping black jaws tighten their frozen bite

From birth raised to never look up
"It will burn your sight"
Too clear and bright it shines
The beautiful dream ending in insight
What will become of life without light?

Without a warning
to some the last day would call forth the final night
And the other half less fortunate,
It would never beget a dawn

We were betrayed!
Tied to the ground by morally binding chains
Collateral for the only cause
Genocide to counter extinction

We are the leftovers,
Scraps and shards of a divided whole
Separated by sheer will to survive,
To kill

"If nothing is lost, nothing is gained"
The lesson we once believed
"The power is ours, the power to leave"
We're breaking the chain...

No longer forced down by gravity
Free to leave, leave us behind
A stairway of corpses, towards the sky

Were we betrayed?
Forcefully grounded, insignificant by necessity
A stepping stone for survival
Continuation at the cost of humanity

Holding on to what little life we have left
Crazed and panicked frightened rats
Unable to abandon our spherical ship
Lost out on a shoreless ocean of empty motion
Slowly crushed under infinite waves of ice....

We believed there was a way
Trusted the few who said they knew how
Comfortably oblivious of the consequences,
The sacrifices we were forced to make
Willingly following our fraudulent call,
Without guiding stars, alone in the dark
On a derelict orb as temperature continues to fall

To fall...

We were Betrayed!
On a desolate corpse forsaken and cast away
Sacrificed for a chance to repeat everything
The missing links of a broken chain

A heavy burden
Aiming to sever the ties of cause
Assuring a righteous dawn
To be conceived in strife and war
He trudges on promulgating the fall of the successions in place
With a resolution to re-assemble the balance of power

A rift forming into the vacuum
Choices made, sides taken
Equilibrium starting to break
The scales tipping towards confrontation

Eventually we crowned the traitors as kings,
A lineage of renewal with a frail but crucial peace
But no amount of novelty could sustain
Our most basic of necesseties,
The innate state creating the compulsive need to be

His fighting spirits broken after prolonged languish
A succession that broke the proportions ingrained
Society diminished from unending conflict
A succession that broke symmetries of life

What have I done?
For beneath wounds inflicted in vain our future writhes enchained
And the dawn seems so distant now
Yet forward is the only road, the only way on

A Heavy burden
To renew the chains cast away
To re-establish what once was broken
Bringing end to strife and war
Continuation of the arduous trial assured,
By the institution of laws forged by the saboteur
By the saboteur

Untold years, no one remembers

Revealing the lost is ice
Covering towers and mountains alike
Silently sleeping, the surface dead
Frozen roots creep...

Discovering depths beneath,
Concealed surfaces
Preserved state of memories
Adrift in orbitless desolation

And so it came to be
I am the product of a dying dream
Long gone, never to be seen
Our light devoid of vitality
This endeavour could not last forever
For the end I wait alone

Isolation, desperation

Generations have passed,
No one remains to remember,
No witnesses remain to our failure
Faded into the distant past

I, the daughter of those who stood above,
The last testament to everything our ideals have atrophied
And now alone in

Desperation, a realization
Even in the screaming void an answer can be found
The reason I still seek

And so it came to be
A hope born from a dying dream
Future entwined with the past
A brilliant light burning with vigor unsurpassed

A shift in perception that restructures reality
Embrace the actuality as one and as a whole
With renewed eyes see it for the first time
the world and the purpose within your mind

Forever as a point in the sequence
Eternal as a part of the universe
For as variables in an ever-repeating system
We exist within the Isochron

This is our wisdom
This is who we were
Chronicled and compiled in to a timeless tale

This is our story
This is our Progeny
And now with my purpose fulfilled,
I can finally sleep

Blazing brilliant evening-star
Igniting in the mesosphere
Perpetual flight into falling
Goddess descends and crashes

A perpetual dive into the divide
The shared progression deeper within,
Where eventually all frequencies disperse
Into a singular silent wave

Converge,
Eventually all coalesces in to one
Diverge,
The whole, branching out from a single point

Lines dissolve, the scale becomes clear
The circular patterns of life revealed
The value of all things perceived,
Colored in hues of primal primacy

Concepts comprised of ever-growing concepts
Exponentially expanding, eventually encompassing everything

Converging,
forever approaching a final line
Diverging,
The grandeur transforming into a stillness

In a world of motionless waves where
Permanence is given structure by time
The universal process is conceptualized,
Undone, to be fathomed by the mind
And our deficiencies, meant nothing
And nothing becomes everything

Coded within is all knowledge and memory
A chronicled and compiled complete history
Wherein desolation followed from fallacy
Successive repetitions and compulsive falsities

Is every part, every instanced phase
Yet while standing atop its crest
Completely without direction,
Even while in chains, I'm unrestrained