Like convulsing fish unaware
Of the murk in which they swim,
The black hole generator
We're all forced to live within.

Self awareness imbued biochemical machinery
Searching for our place at the gates of infinity.

You to etchings based on fear
(Who am I? Why am I here?)
And think you've found the answer.
You presume him greater power.

Each rational gaze through the lens of inquiry
Will widen our view through the cracks of reality.

Consider now, as we all must,
The possibility 
That the glorification of a myth
Is what your life has become to be.

You look to etchings based on fear
(Who an I? Why am I here?)

Religious moral guidance
With its crude bronze-age inception
Steers mankind to shallow depths
And in the wrong direction.

We are not the lonely product 
Of a maniac creator
We are all living as a result 
of the black hole generator.

We must face a threat, to all civilisation 
Dogmatic idealogies with nuclear capacity 
Whose frenzied faithful all desire 
Apocalypse for their Messiah 

Lusting for, a perfect world's ecstatic contradictions 
And, beweildered by the prospect of creating it themselves 
Credulous fools with theocratic convictions 
Would bring about the cessation of life on earth 

Behold a world 
Their faith inspires 
A howling void no empty of 
Church going choirs 

Bats ascend, to boiling peaks where dancing glimmers roar 
While crackles shred with flickering beaks at ashes on the floor 
Asphixiating vortex winds cast corpses away 
From immolation death we're destined to decay 

Is this the result you had in mind? 
Can you accept the legacy left behind? 

Into your hands 
Into your hands 
Into your hands 
Into your hands I feel the lashing of the flames 

The end of life is like a blazing sunset 
The last time colour fills the sky 
For why lies beyond is engulfing dark 
Where even dreams are left to die 

Into your hands 
Into your hands 
Into your hands 
Into your hands I feel the lashing of the flames

Aeons ago, the creation
Of man began sculpting itself.
Onward they travelled and grew.
Centuries passed, climates changed, species dissolved.

From the untamed dark cold caves
Emerged a primal mind
Armed with some basic instincts.
Animal, man, machine: primitive mind.

Years of development passed,
The human race declined.
We leap into the era
Animal, man, machine: mechanical mind.

The remains of what's left are few
As the four footed posture becomes two.
From carving stone to carving steel,
From crude constructions to the ultimate machine.

From the untamed dark cold caves
Emerged a primal mind
Armed with some basic instincts.
Animal, man, machine: primitive mind.

Years of development passed,
The human race declined.
We leap into the era
Animal, man, machine: mechanical mind.

Thousands of years; Errors to show
What we've done,
What we've become.
We commence to slowly decompose.

Human thirst for discovery:
A decadent force with no ken for excess.
Mankind's extinction is assured
With the endless involvement of the mechanised race.

We'll be superfluous.
We'll be overthrown.
A path to extinction
Of natural life.

Animal, man, machine...

A searing, thirsty, tattered wreck -- 
Staggering, through the abyss. 
Respite from this suffering: 
A hope I once dismissed. 

On a quest for preservation 
To escape my own negation, 
I'll employ a novel strategy 
And plunge into insanity. 

Bubbles ripple overhead, 
Temperature starts to cool. 
The purest water fills my mouth 
In this divine pool. 

We have an intellectual reach that 
No mere bodies can contain. 
With a leap beyond ancestral bonds 
Only fragments will remain. 

Mind now a part of the 
Experience machine; 
A sensory extension 
Beyond all previous comprehension. 

Bubbles ripple overhead, 
Temperature starts to cool. 
The purest water fills my mouth 
In this divine pool. 

I slip into insanity. 

In time I'll shed this skin 
A golden age is beckoning. 
Once reborn, mind alive, 
Embrace this future to survive. 

The gentle pull of the tide, 
Its sublime ebb and flow, 
The soothing spray of stars 
Leads me where I must go. 

Face down on a distant secluded shore, 
Death only a memory. 
Insanity: my sanctuary; 
Our sanctuary. 

Through an ever-changing oceanic 
Flow of information 
I'll free myself from the 
Confines of this fleshy prison. 

Memory assimilation. 
Thought-process integration. 
Self-concept reformation. 
Vestigial disintegration. 

Bubbles ripple overhead, 
Temperature starts to cool. 
The purest water fills my mouth 
In this divine pool. 

Technological unification 
Initiates this new awakening.

The sun heats up the skies as seasons change.
The heat intensifies while water levels rise.
We try to guess nature's way.
The giver of life is taking ours away.

What we see and what we know above and below:
erosion from rising water flow.
creations we made corroded our sphere.
the hole is growing as the end approaches near.

threatening tides over horizons
bequeath the fear with power to clear.

the clouds of toxic fumes spread far above our land.
side effects of technological demand
weaken an ancient icy grasp.
the polar giants break at last.

threatening tides over horizons
bequeath the fear with power to clear.
we scuttle for the summit.
with hopes to see the dawn.

sea to summit!

there will be no fire.
there'll be no more war.
nothing but serenity
in the underwater world.

the waves pick up the pace. 
the legions of Neptune charge forth
as they surround the land.

we dread the end.
the flag will soon fall.
earth will crumble drowning us all. 

threatening tides over horizons
bequeath the fear with power to clear.
we scuttle for the summit.
with hopes to see the dawn.

We grew as one through infancy 

In seperable through maturity 
Now laces with the threat 
Of annihilation 
Ideals make way for wartime operations 

Strobe-light shrapnel 
Tears tissue asunder 
My shocked eyes gaze 
Refusing to see 
A blood-stained path to 
My brother reveals 
His unhealable open wounds' frailty 

Inconceivable pain 
Irrevocable affliction 
Powerless am I 
To make you whole once again 

PANACEA 
Powerless am I 
PANACEA 
To make you whole once again 

Petrifying empathy 
Takes complete control of me 
He's involuntarily tethered 
To these last moments of pain 
It may be his last desire 
To be bathed in friendly fire 
A terminal reaction to a hopeless situation 

"Brother...Please! Send me on my way!" 
"Brother...Please! Release me from this pain!" 
It seems that even gods on high 
Refuse to let my brother die 

Responsibility now thrust on me 

Any burden I bear 
Shall be secondary 
A fratricide you're empowering 
To end all your suffering

The orders passed, as news breaks out
Officials have declared:
"The diplomatic strain was not resolved
And once again the peace talks failed."

As head of state puts pen to paper,
A clearance to attack a new frontier,
The nation marvels
As the war machine kicks into gear.

Mobilization of grim assets,
The power of fire and steel
Escorted by an entourage of experts,
Their one objective is to kill.

Ear piercing harmonies of grating metal,
The deployment has begun -
Commencement of offensive operations.
The enemies shall topple one by one.

Truth in the hands
Of the righteous authorities.
The rise of the just.

All targets locked and ready,
Opponent lurks in unfamiliar terrain.
The triggers click and set off the inferno
Of yet another bloody, merciless campaign.

The earth accepts discarded matter -
The ash, the blood, the sweat.
The fragments of the fallen stay behind
Awaiting their days of lament.

No price is too unreasonable
When honour is at stake.
Blood weighs as much as water
To those who don't grieve at the wake.

The war machine advances
As the money fuels the hungry fire.
The power in the hands of those
Who clench the power to conspire.

Blood on the hands of corrupt authorities.
The demise of the truth.

Miscreant...
Miscreant at the helm.

The truth will always find a place to hide
In the cracks of deceptive formalities,
While reliable sources rely on rewards
In exchange for distorted realities.

Freedom from a place so cold and pale, ashes fall.
Scratch the icon from the stone, for his path is thorned.
We have failed to keep this wretch from killing us.

Spear the heart.
Crack the skies.
Break the chains you bind.
Love is the whole of the law.

I crawled through the dusts of the earth,
cloaked in the salts of the sand from the sea.
Life; idle chaos sculpting form.
Servants unto the angels' whore.

Hear me now, king of kings.
I shall kneel before no god, for I am evermore.
Your legs have buckled under crowns of gold, lies and blood.

Wretch...

Wounds, that sting of dirt and sweat.
Here sounds the horn of mules, bleeding ears with empty eyes.
Reason, torn free.
And now the cinders burn out...
To keep this wreath from choking us.

Spear the heart.
Crack the skies.
Break the chains you bind.
Love is the whole of the law.

I crawled through the dusts of the earth,
cloaked in the salts of the sand from the sea.
Death; this path is life? No.

Saviour, of death (cry),
Reason, my name (now)
I am the slayer of gods.

Idi ko mne [Russian: "Иди ко мне", English translation: "Come to me"]
Bring forth demons
Idi ko mne
Bring forth monsters

The surrender of your mind
Brings forth monsters
The sleep of reason
Conjures demons here

Switch off, you'll be at peace
Like the constant dripping
that hollows out stone
You will drink deep your faith
Drink deep your faith

Come to me
Bring forth monsters

Come to me
Bring forth demons

The surrender of your mind
Brings forth monsters
The sleep of reason
Conjures demons here

Stand
Between heaven and earth
Kneel
I'm in charge
Stand
Prostrate yourself before me
Kneel
Listen to every word
Idi ko mne
Idi ko mne

Traitors
Are among us

The end is coming
The end is coming soon

Fear me
Your fear will give me strength

Believe me
The threat of violence is real

Idi ko mne
Bring forth demons
Idi ko mne
Bring forth monsters

The surrender of your mind
Brings forth monsters
The sleep of reason
Conjures demons here

Traitors
Kneel
I am in charge
Stand
Prostrate yourself before me
Kneel
Believe me
The threat of violence is real

Haunted by the fall of Alexandria
And the loss of the thoughts its works would inspire
We must pull these threads from the fire

Bombarded by
Rhythm from cosmic horizons
Where sacrificial altars
Call to the dead

Behold Aeons of systematic Decay
The reformation of all archaic

We are the privileged few
Who stand For an instant aware
Of our moment in time

Neither Ozymandias nor Tithonus
Could accept their impermanence
Intellectually and corporally
We are all doomed eventually

In this space
At this time
How should we live?
What sort of people should we be?

With the benefit of experience
History, literature, philosophy,
And no transcendent being's authority.
With understanding and self-mastery
We can engage our lives
For the benefit of humanity

Behold Aeons of systematic Change
The reformation of all archaic

Bombarded by
Rhythm from cosmic horizons
Where abandoned altars
Are transformed anew

Infinitesimal
Our lives set in motion
We watch distant breakers crash
Upon a shifting cosmic ocean

One with the universal
Churning Continuum of change
Endlessly we are replenished
And forever rearranged

Depthless we dive
Conscious evolving
Encoded in spiral
From the centre revolving

Eyeless we writhe,
Particles weaving
Our lives entangled
With the godhead’s dreaming

From the glow of relic radiation
Filtering through the black eternally
Uncovered from red shifting sands
We can observe our unity

Emanations flow
From the font of creation
Like mites of matter glistening
Through the endless void inane

Mirrored in claw, plant and horn
Reflected in shell, tooth and storm
Fingerprint and DNA

What was once being is now becoming
The source of this mystic congregation
The source of this our dappled world

Infinitesimal, we emerge
Our lives set in motion
We watch distant breakers crash
Upon a shifting cosmic ocean

One with the universal
Churning Continuum of change

Endlessly we are replenished
And forever rearranged

To consider the singularity
Is to consider ourselves
As an aspect of the universe
Experiencing itself subjectively

From the moment you came to me
I saw a fragile weakness to create,
To mould another victim to suffocate

Hear me!
I'm a weak and hollow shell
Fill my thoughts with your words
Make me whole and worthy now

I pray...
Guide me to heaven...
I'll instruct in the way you should go
Created sick, you're commanded to be well
Submit or perish, take your pick.

Inflict pain for the one you love
And set yourself free
….Set me free!

I submit to your words
An open soul to evolve
Show me how I should see
On my knees begging you, please...

Tamed by the greatest myth
Whose parasitic worms
Writhe deep within
The droning twilight of your mind

Spiritual hatred's
Now all that you know
With an undivided heart you shall
Feel the lash of another blow

For my sins
I chase forgiveness
Exhausted I kneel,
Please, never untie me
I am where I belong

Wake Martyr
Rise Martyr

Deceived, never free
Enslaved psychologically
A void I try to fill
As you consume me

Submission
Submission
Submission
Observe the mass decay as all obey

Gaze into these eyes of hatred.
Stand before you leave this world, of ruin.
war has spoiled me.

Fear will destroy us, no peace, no solace.
from the (core) smallest seed of boon, grows monstrous weakness.
And the lie fastens marching legions,
with the helm spinning, waging bloodshed.

In Darkness, I have braved the bustling oceans.
Drowning in nectar, of your sickly madness.
I shall swim down not with hands so broken.
Release this burden from me.

Rise and you will love and fear me.
In time you'll see, there is but god in man.

Hate will become you, wield courage and truth.
From the (ash) thicket of a wreck, grow roses of grace.
Not the sword but the flags of reason
with the sun setting, on our freedom.

Gaze into these eyes of hatred.
Stand before you leave this world, of ruin.
war has spoiled our lives (pain enslaved)
Enslaved our minds, our honour.
Rage against the cries of god and angels.

Catholicon.

Deathless man alone cry out
Amongst deathless gods
you shall accept this eternal gift
And forever embrace the dawn

Engulfed by immortality
Madness burns like
Bloodshot eyes that
Stare for all eternity

Abandoned to churning
Vast - Time scales
Incomprehensible
Epochs melt and fade away

FADE AWAY!

Civilisation:
Die out!

Obscure lives interred.

Godless galaxies:
Burn out!

Ashes cast to void.
TO VOID!

Glimmering fragments
Of obsidian spheres geodesic
Lost shrines to the absent gods’
Scoliotic forgotten testaments

Tumbling through expansive space-time
I sign a song without tune or rhyme
A feeble insect suffering
Endlessly…

I… have… been… Drifting!

Forsaken and forgotten
By a dying universe
Dreaming… Waiting…
Falling through space and time

Entropy
Release me
Fade out! Burn out! Fade out! Burn out!
DIE OUT!
Succumb to nothing….

At the edge of an ever – expanding sea
Beneath heaven’s waves
I breathe deep
And embrace eternal sleep.

Close your eyes, embrace the silence.
For your heart shall never feel again.
Your withered hands, wet with tears...
But cry not my son, you shall never die.

Rising cold, the thunders roll in,
From east to west, encircling in blazing
Silence.
Your wreath, shall be woven through the ages.
Eternal life awaits.

Sweet respite, evoking beauty.
All this time, echoes far from sleep.
Your lucid mind, frenzied sound.
And black now your sun, sinking in the skies.

Rising cold, the thunders roll in,
From east to west, encircling in blazing
Silence.
Your wreath, shall be woven through the ages.
Eternal life awaits.

All I see is the flickering of flames
Roaring down stream.
All I taste is the salt of ancient seas
Lay me to rest.

The charred wood now stirs, somewhere truly lost.
white haze to blur the years.
The amber light, torturous writhe.
Unconsciously enslaved and wrought, to the end.

Siren by the drying brook, weak from this emptiness
that you feel, are you not just a dream?
Murder by the temple road, split from this existence,
that you feared. This world will never be... clean.

Forlorn.

Bittered, nevermore these words.
Plagued by a chain of violent memories.
Miles of winding orchard, weaving the ruins wide,
ceaselessly aflame and burning white.

This weight...
All, forlorn...

Serotinal...
I was prodigious...

Strength, despite the cold asunder.
Waste, in spite of life, you sacrifice.

Winds, invite the dusty slumber
Time, relentlessly you destroy.

A curse befalls dusk, somewhere truly lost.
Unconsciously a slave to thought, in the end.

Raging cataclysm, from the abysmal depths
of the mind, escape the rising tide.
Mist so unrelenting, under the jaded moon
Glowing through, a gift of amber bloom.

This wait...

Withered, nevermore this path.
All of my peace has faded into dawn.
Buried in the orchard, scalded of deception,
paralysed and silent as the grave.

This weight...
All, forlorn...