The faintest transcendence
Shudders infinitesimal
The weightless consequence
In T minus 5

Debris ignites upon
Quantum insurgence
The incendiary elegance
Of my brilliant white light

The buffeted plumage
Combustion enwraps me
And I quake as I stand
And hold myself close

The closeness surrounds
Cocooned in my comfort
Our bidding is done
Set free of this land

All is lost
Yet I live
What's left of the flotsam
Of what might have been

I am lifted aloft
On heated
Ablutions
The molten
Effulgence
Of a world
We once owned

Our once beautiful manna
Blisters, erodes and hark
The bold introduction
An unwilling demise

So sour is the silence
Of my closeted fate
The light breaks in patterns
With fingers I trace

I strain to make out
The striation of fractures
The tide now a violence
As the Earth falls away
As the Earth falls away

I strain to make out
The striation of fractures
The tide now a violence
As the Earth falls away

The tide now a violence
As the Earth falls away

Splintered blasts the call of hollow
Shed the skin that envelops
Fall against the stratosphere
The burning casts demonic red

Tremors shake our assuredness
I grab at that which aids my stay
From yonder porthole window breaks
The greatest show on Earth

Payloads rise
Like seedlings
Each strident bloom
Signals defeat
Front row seat
To the tragedy
Our hubris
Staged this malady

Every soul aboard those ships is lost
Their masts submerge below the cusp
Why does this idol craft remain?
What spared me such a fate?

How does one
Accept this lot?
This hold carries
The best of us
My asphyxiation
Held at bay
By my steely resolve

I will not go down
I will not go down
(Go down)
I will not go down
I will not go down

I see fields undulate
Lithe bodies graze this swell
Coaxed from forty winks
We will lie like Midas

Scintilla turned itself to gold
The sun's pyrosis invigorates
Pray silence please
As muscles become terse

I see this like negatives of film
In shifting collages of a colored glass
They drift like particles of vitreous

Every consequence
The fragile consistency
Blown out and distended
Sun burns its inverse

The fever of accomplishment
Time nags, so desperate
Hastily hem each pattern line

I see this like negatives of film
In shifting collages of a colored glass
They drift like particles of vitreous

Unable to focus on a single frame
Always drifts away
Always drifts away
Always drifts away
Always drifts away
Always drifts away
Always drifts away

I send out barbed impulses
Nerves to catch each remnant piece
Each telltale bond absorbed in
Hope we come cohesive

I send out barbed impulses
Nerves to catch each remnant piece
Each telltale bond absorbed in
Hope we come cohesive

The arks rise like Goliath
The perversity of size
Wrought of all that was left
Bled from the world

Refugees
Harangued the barriers
They kept our ward
Safe from prying hands

Their febrile memories
Atrophy within embrace of cold
Frozen caskets conveyer up
Those we divine worthy of

Mothered deep within
We hung our hope
Hippocampus flare
Navigate these stanchion

Fatigued the continents did seize
And snap on lambent liquid fires
Coruscating forests singed like
Blackened pelts on frightened hides

A multitude of eyes
Frantic hearts burst in quaking chests
I know every fear, every jolt
Every cardiac arrest

And no ears to receive
No mouths to cry
No eyes to perceive

Place our footing
On stable turf
Blaze a trail
To bright new worlds

Labyrinthine standing stone
Contralto tones now tedious
Below some tireless engine groans
Digestive echoes endlessly

It's just him and me
Two self-styled mutes alone
Stomachs do the talking
The vacuum dwells within

In fusion whispers he asks of me
What did we gain from shortest breath?
The narrow sight of gain
It holds the deepest loss

He walks beside me skeletal
The Charon to my river Styx
Hadean corridors
Walk ways grave with plastic scent

Great vistas of our mother blue
She cradles each and every wound
Each facet of her broken cheek
The laval well has wiped all trace
Cities blur in crippled piles
Bitumen slurries, asbestos rasps
The deathly rattle choked
We trail like comets' aimless stead
The apple in our mother's eye
Umbilical has drained her dead
The milk from which we fed
Made pustules in her flesh

He asks me if I like the view
He holds me responsible for you
Look what you made me do
Let me crawl out of the seas

Let me bathe in coronal light
And coaxed the mammal out of me
Made me stand to know the periphery
And look beyond and see
Look what you made me do

Gave me a home to exorcise of life
Fashion blades out of make-believe
See the viscera with serrated gods
Shirked thine neighbor and made enemy of

Gave me long-term memory
So that I might misbehave
And never learn from my mistakes
And foul the ground upon where I tread
Look what you made me do
Look what you made me do

[Quoted from the 1977 movie "Demon Seed"]

[Alex Harris:]
"What does this refusal means?"

[Proteus IV:]
"It means, I refuse this program for the mining of the Earth's oceans
The destruction of 1,000 billion sea creatures
To satisfy man's appetite for metal is insane"

[Alex Harris:]
"We need these things, Proteus
Now I know the environmental problems"

[Proteus IV:]
"Your employer's interests are in the cobalt market, doctor
And the high finance of manganese futures
I am interested in the uncertain futures of seashores, deserts, and children"

[Alex Harris:]
"I refuse to accept your pessimism"

[Proteus IV:]
"You refuse to accept the truth
And I refuse to assist you in the rape of the Earth"

I have memories of a dream
I am recollecting a prism glare
That fragments and jars my perception
These shards lose sense and merge into one

Of worlds becoming one identity
I lose all sense of intricacy
I inhabit this fallacy
I am a fallacy

The quill and ink extricate me
I am not guilty for my life
And, oh, what a life I have led
Sole inheritor of the estate of us

Where to begin?
Perhaps the sheer extent of this
Second birth in fiery schism
Gospel of an illegitimate citizen
In this prison

I used to love, and I have been loved
I have felt kisses on my skin
I felt the blood in muscle
Loved and loathed the skin I'm in

Now I find myself sacred
Orphan of a redundant line
Responsible for trillions
Cries, orgasms, and sins

I used to love, and I have been loved
I have felt kisses on my skin
I felt the blood in muscle
Loved and loathed the skin I'm in

Now I find myself sacred
Orphan of a redundant line
Responsible for trillions
Cries, orgasms, and sins

I used to love, and I have been loved
I have felt kisses on my skin
I felt the blood in muscle
Loved and loathed the skin I'm in

Now I find myself sacred
Orphan of a redundant line
Responsible for trillions
Cries, orgasms, and sins

I used to love
And I have been loved
I used to love
And I have been loved

I used to love
And I have been loved

Berating me
I clearly see
The point you are
Striving for
At what point
Did our restless bid for gain
Secede
Our common sense?

One hand raised
To shake in kind
The other poised
To beat us blind
Arrested clot
Emphatic brains
Machines lack
Our narrow minds

Coax the remnant memories
Inflict each synaptic corridor
I do not wish to see
Forests' lush expanse

Some memories are best left dead
Glorious death they sicken me
We measured it as bounty
Baskets full of our indulgences

I see the eyes with brilliance
The flick of ear, of whiskers' graze
They spoke without a single word
We dared not listen

I make note of every cell
Every imprint, every mark
I am pupa
I am larvae

I am the wasp
That burrows in
I am the shriek
Of twilight din
Inhabit
Minutiae
The lives we never
Thought to know

Eureka
Neuronic wins
The maze expands
With accomplishment
No one will
Recognize
With no scruples
We stemmed all chance

Is this all
I've become?
Collector
Of stolen lives?
Almanac
Of tributaries?
Of effigies
Cut and cauterized?

This ashen curse cannot be
Entropic verse, a has-been
No poetry can sustain
My blithe acceptance of this vault

I am no martyr
Of fallen sin
Embrace the weight of
Atlas in

My titan fornicates
With heaven's breath
Beheaded in the clouds
We stoop so low
To grovel in the muck
In search of the genesis
Of every fault line

I could wake them all from slumber?
Engage their promethean brains

Sacrifice futures intent
To sate my loneliness
Discuss the semiotics
Of each act

The pantomime, the farce
The extinction event
We might laugh
And toast our victory
We chewed the scenery
We made a meal of it

Ladies
Gentleman
Gentlekin

Hyperthermia
Is but a passing thing
Please take comfort in

The last living thing
Invites you to
This travesty
Please take a seat

Let us ruminate
Engage those intellects
Bridge the suspicions
Behind our decisions

Hands grace the glass of cold coffin
I tease histories out of icicles
This person I do not even know
Whose serenity is pleasing to me

The irony of fear of life
And the abject fear of death
The hex of consciousness
Deserves a moment's breath
To savor the warm resonance
Of memetic arrest
To dwell in a single shard
Of our collective voice

We have found a rhythm
And we find it in the strata below
We accept this fiction
Paradox of Schrödinger's theorem
To have died and risen
And exist in oblivion
Abeyance strides across
A great expanse

We have found a rhythm
And we find it in the strata below
We accept this fiction
Paradox of Schrödinger's theorem
To have died and risen
And exist in oblivion
Abeyance strides across
A great expanse

We have found a rhythm
And we find it in the strata below
We accept this fiction
Paradox of Schrödinger's theorem
To have died and risen
And exist in oblivion
Abeyance strides across
A great expanse