It's in the air I breathe
It's seeping through my pores
My lungs wither and groan
My entrails scream and writhe

Hack, tear, sting
Decapitate
Every torture
A familiar joy

Cold heart
Dead soul
Yet still my bones are aching

Pain
My eldest friend

Cold limbs
Dead eyes
Yet still my mind is racing

Pain
Won't leave my side

As I scratch away the skin
And there's no blood left to greet me
I look down upon my legs
And feel some urge now to eat them

As the poison
Conquers my veins
My charred mind commands
Through my swollen throat
From my shattered lips
A feeble laugh
Unknown to me

Cold heart
Dead soul
Yet still my bones are aching

Pain
My eternal companion

Cold limbs
Dead eyes
Yet still my mind is racing

Pain
Won't you stay a little longer?

Enthroned
In impenetrable darkness
Sits
The master of the Watchers

Within the gaseous maelstrom
Amidst the shattered comets

There lies his palace
A graveyard of dead worlds

His minions lurk
In hidden alcoves
No man has gleaned

Abandoned temples
On the surface of Callisto

Towering pillars
On cloud-shrouded Titan

Carved megaliths
Preserved
In the sterile vacuum

Submerged
In forgotten lakes
Underneath the ice

In the shadows
Of nameless monuments
Entrenched in endless night

The master of the Watchers
His minions lurk
In hidden alcoves
No man has gleaned

Behind the third ring of Saturn
Inside the volcanos of Venus
Below the horned moon of Pluto
Beneath the oceans of the Earth

Sometimes
I wonder
Sometimes
I question
Sometimes I fear
To learn the answer

Why are we here?
Where do we go?

Is there a choice?
What is the goal?

Is there a reason
We're thinking beings?
Or are we just meat
Without a meaning?

Why won't the stars
Answer our calls?
Do they know
Something we don't?

Maybe our purpose
Is to serve
The true masters
Of the universe

Are we soldiers?
Or are we slaves?
Whom do we serve?
And do they even care?

Maybe we are playthings
Idle entertainment
For the ultimate gods

Soon discarded
And forgotten
Abandoned toys
Gathering dust
In this corner
Of the cosmos

Maybe we're destined
To do nothing but
To fight and pray
To think and suffer
To laugh and die
And shit and fuck

Our thoughts are a nuisance
Our sentience a mistake

Our purpose is to speculate
Until the gods decide our fate
Foolish apes sit and meditate
As our world fucking terminates

"13 billion years ago, our early universe was nothing but hot, dense plasma. Charged particles clashing and wriggling about. Gravity compressing and pressure pushing back, causing waves. Sound waves.

By measuring the thermal fluctuations in our cosmic microwave background, we can reconstruct the amplitude and frequency of these primordial sound waves.

You hear it, don't you? That fuzzy noise. Those are the first words of our infant universe."

Plunging
Once more
Into the gap

Where emptiness is all
Where I am empty

Escape
The cacophony
Of existence

The blackness beckons
Embrace
The nothingness
Within

The transient echoes
Of forgotten life
Flicker by unheeded

Indecipherable expanse
Is my solace

The blackness beckons
I forsake this reality

The void welcomes all
I welcome the void

Search
Between the stars
A crimson comet
A fiery serpent
Signals my arrival

Millions called me God
Before a single word
Was carved
In stone

Stargazers
Have prophesied
The advent of my reign
Megalithic monuments
Constructed in my likeness

But I am not their God
I am far more

I'm the ouroboros
The snake that eats its tail
The one that gave you life
The one that seals your fate

I'm the ouroboros
The one that brought you light
And now I've come to herald
Eternal night

A legion of death
Wash my feet
In an ever-flowing stream
Of human blood

A pyramid
Of skulls
To block out the Sun

A forest
Of headless children
Sacrificed in my name

I'm the ouroboros
The snake that eats its tail
The one that gave you life
The one that seals your fate

The one that brought you light
And now I've come to herald
Eternal night

Millions called me God
Before a single word
Was carved
In stone

Megalithic monuments
Constructed in my likeness

A legion of death
Wash my feet
In an ever-flowing stream
Of human blood

A pyramid
Of skulls
To block out the Sun

A forest
Of headless children
Sacrificed in my name

Two giants
Locked in a dance
Rupturing the fabric
As they approach

The mightiest
That no mortal
Had beheld

Circling
And circling
For aeons

Uncountable cycles pass
In the ageless silence

Two giants
Fuse to one
A blinding flash
In the blink of an eye
An ever-dimming afterglow
A chasm of nothing remains

This remnant
Of deceptive tranquility

A single grain
In the sand-choked banks
Of a black sea
Of nameless infinity